Hundreds show love for ASU's Anderson

New Arkansas State football coach Blake Anderson (left) and his wife, Wendy, laugh at a comment Thursday afternoon at a press conference in Jonesboro. - Photo byStaton Breidenthal

JONESBORO -- The background of the stage was lit in red, the color of the Red Wolves.

In the foreground, over a dozen arrangements of various colored flowers -- some red, others pink -- overspread the steps of the stage. At the base of the center of the stage sat a coffin wrapped in more flowers and a photo of a family.

On the giant video screens, a portrait of the late Wendy Anderson -- the wife of Arkansas State University football Coach Blake Anderson -- was accompanied with the phrase "In our hearts forever," and…