NORFOLK
The sun was setting on a hot summer day and quarterbacks coach Ron Whitcomb was watching film of potential recruits in the Old Dominion University football office. Otherwise, the offices there were deserted.
That’s when James Fagan, an ODU student from Richmond, walked in the door, found his way to Whitcomb and politely but boldly and asked if he could walk on without a scholarship and play football for the Monarchs.
Whitcomb said he looked up and up and up some more before he saw Fagan's face on top of his 6-foot-6, 308-pound body.