Great story, but, "man [nor a football team] cannot live by [Rudy] alone." Bronco loves a feel good, blue collar, story, but I have to wonder if Kuresa is one of his Thursday's Heroes kids? In the famous words of my Irish-friend who coaches the rugby team, "the dude's a wee man."
He better have Nate Mickle-like metal to take hits, because his "speed" is sooner or later going to write checks his body can't cash at the D1 level. Dont forget that The last guy named Jake also thrived in a non-hitting environment. Throw in an angry Manti Teo and this kid might just end up not only with some broken bones, but in a wheel chair too. "go on [Jake], be a Tiger." keep going for it!!
Rudy's problem was he had a lot of heart and no athletic talent. This kid is an athlete. I like to think that maybe we are learning from Patterson that you can build a great team if you can coach up athletes and not get too stuck on what position the athlete has to play--use them where they can be the most effective. Patterson was great at taking speed guys and turning them into great defenders.