A native Canadian, Saunders received a scholarship and played hockey at Western Michigan University from 1974 to 1976. In 1976, he transferred to Ryerson Polytechnical in Toronto.
This mugshot of Saunders reminds me of a show he did with Terry Bowden dicussing a coaching vacancy (maybe Notre Dame). They agreed that the next major D-I football slot should go to a Black coach. I'll never forget that moron Terry nodding in agreement, knowing that his Daddy may have been passed over in such a hiring regimen, and that the crew of D-I coaches he sired might also have never happened. I like the MLK,Jr. test of "content of character, not color of skin."