I’m not sure I’ve ever met a nicer, more modest or faithful young man than Blake LaRussa.
Nor have I met anyone who's shown more courage and character on the football field.
LaRussa stands all of 5-foot-10 and has a modest build, in spite of the hours he toiled away in Old Dominion's weight room. That’s why, even after setting all kinds of passing records at Bishop Sullivan Catholic High in Virginia Beach, the quarterback from Chesapeake didn’t have any Division I college scholarship offers.
He walked on at ODU without a scholarship, worked as hard as anyone I’ve seen in his first three years and had little playing time to show for it.