{"id":2373,"date":"2026-07-07T21:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2026-07-07T21:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:04:12","slug":"coach-prime-healthy-energized-with-buffaloes-season-around-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"Coach Prime healthy, energized with Buffaloes\u2019 season around corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>FRISCO, Texas \u2013 A year ago, Deion Sanders made the trek from his home in Canton, Texas, to Big 12 media day at The Star.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2371\">Fire closes part of Colorado\u2019s Mesa Verde National Park<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Buffaloes\u2019 head coach was present, but he wasn\u2019t himself.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Prime hadn\u2019t been in Boulder or even around his team in weeks. At the time, it was unknown publicly that he was battling bladder cancer.<\/p>\n<p>As he arrived at The Star last July, he was dressed to the nines, at least outwardly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had shorts up under (the suit) and I had a hoodie up under there, just because I had lost a large amount of weight and I didn\u2019t want a lot of people to know,\u201d he said Tuesday during 2026 Big 12 media day, once again at The Star. \u201cSmiling, stylin\u2019, profiling, trying to do the best I could to falsify how I was really feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Sanders, 58, was himself again. He\u2019s a year older but has the health and energy to try to get the Buffs back on track after a disappointing 3-9 season in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m back, I\u2019m healthy, and I got my thought process, my me back,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders has acknowledged that his absence throughout the spring and summer in 2025 impacted the Buffs last year. Now cancer-free, he\u2019s put full effort into making sure this is a better season for the Buffaloes.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s around every day this summer,\u201d said senior safety Ben Finneseth, who is entering his fourth season under Sanders. \u201cHe\u2019s been around more than I\u2019ve ever seen him in my entire life. The way that he\u2019s bought into our team this year, he\u2019s taken it up another level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanders was engaged and around his team in previous years when healthy, but after a disappointing 2025 campaign that included a five-game losing streak to close the season and a lack of leadership, he\u2019s made a point of being even more involved with the roster build and preparation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sat there (in the office) with a couple of staffers and we watched every single guy that\u2019s in that locker room on film and made the decision on every single guy, every single recruit,\u201d he said. \u201cEverything has just gone up. Everything. There\u2019s not a \u2018T\u2019 that\u2019s not crossed, an \u2018I\u2019 that\u2019s not dotted. We are on it, and you can see by the recruiting, you can see by the team that we\u2019ve assembled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CU roster includes some key returning players, including quarterback JuJu Lewis, tight end Zach Atkins, receiver Joseph Williams, running back Micah Welch, and Finneseth.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2369\">PNC Bank closing 14 Colorado branches following FirstBank rebranding<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s a roster that\u2019s also loaded with transfers, including receivers Danny Scudero and DeAndre Moore, defensive lineman Santana Hopper, linebacker Gideon Lampron and defensive backs Cree Thomas, Boo Carter and Naeten Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>The coaching staff is also very different, including coordinators Brennan Marion (offense) and Chris Marve (defense).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe coaching staff, I keep saying this is the best staff I\u2019ve ever had in my life and they are,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cThat\u2019s not to demean any of the previous coaches. They were good also, but these guys are special and they have the gift of communication with these young men. I\u2019m excited about all of the possibilities. I really am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Sanders is excited about his team, outside expectations are low. No Buffs were included on the preseason All-Big 12 team announced Monday, and several national publications have the Buffs finishing near the bottom of the 16-team Big 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t care about what people say,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople are always going to have an opinion. If my kids and my coaches and our staff don\u2019t understand who they are, we have a problem. They\u2019re not going to allow you to identify who we are, and just because our guys were snubbed off a poll that\u2019s probably not going to be consistent with the end of the season, we don\u2019t give a darn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur kids know who, what, when, where, and how they are, and they know what they got to do, and how they got to work. It just gives them that extra oomph inside of them, and I\u2019m thankful and appreciative of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanders has some extra oomph, as well, as he enters his fourth season in Boulder feeling healthy and re-energized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColorado has given me a tremendous opportunity that I\u2019m so darn appreciative of, and I want to live up and surpass the expectations,\u201d he said. \u201cMy younger self would be proud; would be proud that I was here last year fighting a battle called cancer, and now I\u2019m here with full strength, full energy. I got that thing back, I got that swagger back, I got that dawg back, I got that charisma back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot wait to get back on that sideline and do our thing. I can\u2019t wait to get back to camp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2367\">Teen girl reported missing from Lakewood<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Buffaloes head football coach Deion Sanders healthy and energized ahead of 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Coach Prime healthy, energized with Buffaloes\u2019 season around corner - Colorado Springs Moverss<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=2373\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coach Prime healthy, energized with Buffaloes\u2019 season around corner - 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