Chuck Amato
Chuck Amato
Charles "Chuck the Chest" Amatois an American football coach and former player. He is the defensive coordinator for the Akron Zips football team. He served as the head football at North Carolina State University from 2000 to 2006, compiling a record of 49–37. On January 17, 2007, Amato returned to Florida State, where he had coached as assistant for nearly two decades before moving to NC State, as executive associate head coach and linebackers coach, a position he held for...
best biggest comparing easy everybody fact football hang hanging name player
One of the biggest things is the fact that he doesn't have Philip's name hanging over him. That's not an easy name to hang over you, with everybody comparing him to the best football player to ever play here.
feeling hard win
I was feeling that we were going to win this the hard way.
athletic farmer grew opportunity owned pay side
My grandparents on my mother's side owned a farm, and I grew up on the farm. If it wasn't for an opportunity to get an athletic scholarship ... to pay for my education, to this very day, I would be a farmer up in Pennsylvania with my cousins.
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Nobody expects it to take real long, but it takes a while to build a program anywhere. In addition, we expanded this league. The good news is we're getting better. The bad news is, so is everybody else in this league. We've lost an awful lot of close games, but we're very, very close.
miss opportunity turn
One play did something to turn it around. We're all over that thing, and we miss an opportunity to make a play. They go down and score, and it just steamrolled.
best felt
Jay's been so good. He really has. But he didn't have his best game. I felt we had to make a change.
enjoy laugh month saw
I saw it about a month ago, I laughed. You know me, you know I like to have fun, I like to enjoy life. If you're going to laugh at other people, you have to be able to laugh at yourself.
foolish fools-and-foolishness guys penalties scoring took
Penalties set up a touchdown for them and took away scoring opportunities from us. We had some foolish penalties and some guys got one who hadn't had one in two years.
gave hold nobody overtime team
Penalties, penalties, penalties. But you know what, nobody on that team ever gave up. Nobody on that team ever quit. Nobody thought we wouldn't hold them and go into overtime or do something big in the end zone.
anybody cost country penalties silly stressed
We have stressed penalties and turnovers more than anybody in the country could. Silly penalties now, silly penalties that really cost us big.
belt four games guy last shots win year
We had four shots to win it and he's the guy who got us down there. He's just so much better this year than last year because he's got those 11 games under his belt and now he's got four more under his belt.
hard time waking
We have a hard time waking up everybody.
drives excuse help
Those are such nagging things that help keep drives going. There's no excuse for that.
practicing whether
We've been getting them up early. We've been practicing early. It don't know if that has any consequence. Whether that makes a difference, I don't know.