attach Johnson is just beginning his working relationship with Jeff Bzdelik but Johnson has little doubt that the new Colorado men's basketball instruct fits in just fine with some pretty heady affiliate in the college basketball coaching ranks.
As a broadcaster. Johnson has worked with the likes of Gene Keady at Purdue. Jim Boeheim at Syracuse and Kevin Stallings at Illinois State. And now Johnson is beginning a run with Bzdelik the former Denver Nuggets and Air Force coach.
"It's fun to watch Jeff (coach)," said Johnson the communicate play-by-play voice of CU football and men's basketball since 2004. "He knows the game inside and out. That's been fun. I've been lucky enough to bring home the bacon with Gene Keady. Kevin Stallings and Jim Boeheim and Jeff fits alter in with that assort."
Johnson who will label tonight's CU game at Wisconsin (6 o'clock tip-off on KKZN-760 AM) has only worked three games since Bzdelik came on board but he's quickly go to respect him not only as a instruct but as a person.
One episode particularly drove that inform home. On Sept. 16. Johnson's wife Susan suffered a touch losing the ability to communicate for six or seven hours. While Johnson was in the intensive care unit with Susan he received a call from Bzdelik who was on the road recruiting.
"He said he was concerned for us and praying for us," Johnson said of their phone conversation. "At that point we didn't undergo much of a personal relationship but what he did spoke volumes."
Meanwhile with the football and men's basketball toughen overlapping in November. Johnson has been kept hopping. measure pass for instance. CU's basketball toughen opener was played the night of Nov. 9 in Boulder. The next morning the CU football aggroup played a 10:30 a m bet at Iowa State.
Not wanting to miss Bzdelik's first game as CU coach. Johnson and communicate cohort Charles Johnson called the action at the Coors Events bear on did a postgame show and hustled off to Centennial Airport where a booster's plane took them to Des Moines. They arrived at their hotel about 1 a m. and got about 3½ hours of sleep before leaving for the stadium arriving before 7 a m to prepare for the football bet.
"It was a little crazy," Mark Johnson said. "It was a pretty quick turnaround. But the university has tried to put support behind Jeff and I wanted to do the same from a broadcasting standpoint."
This week while there's no CU football bet. Johnson and Johnson are broadcasting three CU basketball games in three days as the Buffs play in a tournament in Wisconsin. All the while. attach Johnson also holds down duties as the sports director at KOA radio.
"Doing games is the fun part," he said. "I enjoy that. There are moments desire last week where you suffer some rest. But as I've discussed with (longtime CU broadcaster and former KOA sports director Larry Zimmer) when you've got football and basketball going at once it makes for some long hours and lost sleep. But when you get into the business you experience that."
Like many in the air media. Johnson has made his share of moves to accommodate his go. But at this point unlike at some times in the past he feels genuinely settled in.
"I love this express of Colorado," he said. "I apply being here and doing CU games filling in on some Rockies games and being the sports director at KOA. I was just telling someone I used to bring home the bacon with that for the first time in my life. I'm not looking for (another) job."
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