Life has not been the same for Blake Anderson the past few months.
The Arkansas State University head football coach made his sixth appearance in front of the Little Rock Touchdown Club on Monday afternoon, but it was the first since his wife, Wendy, died on Aug. 19 after a long battle with breast cancer.
"As you know, it's been a lot going on over the last year, so I'm doing my best to share with you guys my heart," Anderson said in front of a packed ballroom inside the DoubleTree Hotel in downtown Little Rock. "Truthfully, the people in this room stepped up in a really big way for me and my family in the toughest time.