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Deion Sanders needed IV therapy for illness prior to Washington State: "We played just like I felt"

Coach Prime was feeling the blues in more than one way last week
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Deion Sanders needed IV therapy for illness prior to Washington State: "We played just like I felt"
Deion Sanders needed IV therapy for illness prior to Washington State: "We played just like I felt"

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Deion Sanders didn't appear to be in "coaching shape" on Friday night. The 56-year-old was definitely under the weather and we found out just how bad his symptoms were during Tuesday's weekly press conference.

"First off, I apologize for the press conference afterwards. I don't even remember the flight back," Sanders admitted. "You have no idea how sick and medicated... I got an IV before the game and I just had to be out there with the kids. There was no way I was going to miss the game.

"I hadn't been this sick in a long time. I mean, that was bad, bad... bad, bad.. and we played just like I felt."

Colorado's 56-14 loss at the hands of Washington State was a doozy on the road. It was a fifth straight loss for the Buffs and knocked them out of postseason contention in Sanders' first year on the job. It wasn't the loss in general, but how everything seemed to fall apart for CU with the team showing a lack of effort. Shedeur Sanders was sacked four times with ten pass attempts before exiting the game with an injury in the second half.

Colorado heads to Salt Lake City for a season finale with Utah on Saturday. A 3 p.m. ET kickoff with coverage on the Pac-12 Network. 

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JOSH TOLLE

Josh Tolle is a writer covering college sports for On SI. Outside of storytelling, the multi-talented broadcaster has play-by-play experience at the professional and collegiate levels. In 2018, he began calling games for the National Women’s Soccer League. He has also called games for the United Soccer League, Concacaf, and the U.S. Open Cup. He has called hockey for the Premier Hockey Federation for the past three seasons and was the play-by-play voice for the Superior RoughRiders of the Western Hockey League. He has provided play-by-play for various other sports including football, basketball, baseball and volleyball events. Since 2015, Tolle has been the voice of Colorado School of Mines Athletics having called football, men's and women's basketball and soccer. He previously wrote for SB Nation.

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