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...
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We've got to win, period. Home or away. But we do have to win a game here for everybody involved. Could you imagine this place if that game (last week at Georgia Tech) was played here, won here, how crazy the fans and everything would have been on that last play.
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We're very fortunate because we're starting fall break tonight. Could you think about missing Wednesday, Thursday, Friday classes two weeks in a row? But, you know they do it in basketball and do it in other sports.
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You know, Sterling is a young man that really has stepped up. He got dinged a week ago, but we expect Sterling to help us quite a bit. He's having a good camp.
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I think it adds excitement to all of us. All of us are dreamers. None of us have lost a game yet.
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When he walks into a room, you say that's what (a defensive end) looks like.
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I felt comfortable that they could go out there and do really good things themselves because they're all playmakers, and I think they deserve that. It had nothing to do with injuries at that point. I just wanted to get them in there.
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I was just totally disappointed with the way we played defensively.
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I was just possessed to do it, I couldn't wait. We actually took that 5-yard penalty intentionally.
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He has really stepped his preparation up and how he's going about it. He's better now than when the season ended last year.
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We talked about we'll play the game and chat after that. I know nothing.
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His stats, throwing-wise, may not be super, super good, but he doesn't make many mistakes. Since that first game, he has made very few mistakes and that is why we have been on this roll.
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He's been a great contributor to this program. He's already helped start a tradition on the defensive line. ... We can recruit other players, but there'll never be another Mario Williams. When we're out recruiting defensive ends, that is what they should look like.
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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.
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I was feeling that we were going to win this the hard way.