Terry Mohajir got choked up Thursday.
Emotions got the best of Arkansas State University's athletic director on a Zoom call less than an hour after the school announced that head football coach Blake Anderson had resigned. Mohajir's tears had already appeared earlier in the day.
During the team meeting in which Anderson -- the Red Wolves' coach since 2014 -- informed his players that he was leaving the program for another FBS head coaching job, widely reported to be with Utah State, Mohajir felt seven years of love, loss, triumph and so much else overcome him.
Once Anderson, who guided ASU to two Sun Belt Conference titles and six consecutive bowl game appearances, poured out his impassioned farewell, Mohajir collected himself, as he did while addressing media via Zoom, and spoke.