Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes are looking to stop their two-game skid when they face Arizona State, but the head coach has missed a few of his normal weekly activities due to his health.
This week’s edition of the Colorado football coach’s radio show took place Thursday without Sanders. The 56-year-old missed this week’s show ahead of a Saturday showdown against Arizona State for what university officials described as health reasons, according to the Denver Post.
“We are going without Coach Prime here today,” said Colorado play-by-play announcer Mark Johnson on the radio show.
“We received notification a little while again that he was a little under the weather and had a bad reaction to his immune IVs, is what I was told.”
In his place was assistant head coach Gary Harrell who said Coach Prime was under the weather after having a “bad reaction to his immune IVs,” according to Buffs Beat.
“Well, you know, we had a team meeting this morning, and any time he’s not in our presence we know something is wrong. He doesn’t miss very much,” Harrell said, per Buffs Beat. “So, I went and checked up on him. He wasn’t feeling well, so we resumed the meeting. But he was at practice, for the entire time. He’s just not at full strength right now, but he’s trying to take care of that.”
As many are well aware, Sanders has dealt with multiple health-related issues dating back to his time with Jackson State. His health problems led to the amputation of two of his toes, which took place while he was coaching at Jackson State in 2021.
In July of this year, he was forced to miss Pac-12 media day to undergo a blood clot procedure.
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Even if Sanders isn’t 100%, Harrell and the Buffaloes expect him to be on the sideline for Saturday’s game against the Sun Devils.
Colorado hoping to shake off back-to-back losses to Oregon and USC.
