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Amato touts his N.C. State success
In a wide-ranging teleconference with reporters Friday morning, former N.C. State coach Chuck Amato touted the program’s accomplishments during his tenure.
Amato, 49-37 over seven years before he was fired at the end of the 2006 season, will visit N.C. State on Thursday night as a top assistant to Florida State’s Bobby Bowden.
• "When you’re building a program, your won-loss record, we won an average of 49 games over seven years. That’s an average of seven wins a season. That’s a lot of wins now.”
・"I was talking bringing a national championship, and why not? That’s the way it should be. That’s where excitement comes in. It doesn’t happen overnight. If Duke had fired Mike Krzyzewski after the third or fourth year? What a crime.”
• "There were games that came down to the last play that we could have won.
And had we won that Wake Forest game [a 25-23 loss], we may have been the team to represent our division in the conference championship.”
(Note: in 2006, when N.C. State finished 3-9 with seven losses by eight or fewer points).
• "I knew what was wrong. And it would have been fixed. But I’m not one that was going to fix things in the middle of the season. Because I’m not that way. I’ve been around Bobby Bowden too long and being the professional that he is and how he operates, and Lou Holtz, there’s right ways and wrong ways.”
• "I don’t hold grudges, because I love that university and I always will, and I’m just not that kind of a person.”
• "That’s my goal. I will be a head coach [again]. And I feel like there’s going to be a team out there who wants a head coach to lead their program that has been through the wars and has got head coaching experience, has been to bowl games and has averaged seven wins a season in a very difficult league and raised excitement and energy.”
Ken Tysiac
Ken Tysiac has covered the ACC for The Charlotte Observer since 2003, and spent the previous eight years covering Clemson for the Anderson Independent-Mail and then The State in South Carolina. He grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
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One of Us, Regardless
Mon, 10/13/2008 - 09:22 — Carl_NCSU_73Yes, I waited 20 years for Chuck to get the job here. I thought he should have gotten the job when Bo Rein left. After all, what did we get from Monte, Tom Reed, and MOC? And yes, I reluctantly agreed he should go after the last two miserable years. But he did what he came here to do: Make us give a **** about football and shoot for something better than average. I may be by myself Thursday night, but I'll be cheering "Thank You, Chuck!" when he comes on the field Thursday night, and then cheering just as hard for TOB's Wolfpack to send the Seminoles on a long, quiet trip home. Show some class, y'all. Make the man welcomed.
Fraudmato
Sat, 10/11/2008 - 07:45 — Anonymous (not verified)Spread the word and pass it on.
oh yeah
Fri, 10/10/2008 - 22:40 — Heelstomper (not verified)oh yeah i forgot........i still hate unc and hope the pack stomps them just so we can laugh at how overrated you are!
The truth
Fri, 10/10/2008 - 22:38 — Heelstomper (not verified)The Amato truth is ..........He could not beat UNC when they were down and not very good........Without Rivers we were awful on offense, the defense was great.If the defense had been as bad as the offense we would have never won a single game.......Amato brought alot of excitement and money to a program that needed it. His bravado and arrogance were good for something and the program owes him alot for making us stronger finacially.........The attitudes and behavior on the field was embarassing to say the least, we led in turnovers and stupid penalties year after year..........All told Amato did some good , but in the end we sold our souls to the devil and that will haunt us for several years and now TOB is having to clean up the mess, but at least he has nice facilities! Can we just name the drunk holding tank after Amato and never mention his tenure again!
Ohhh Chuch, you still can't
Fri, 10/10/2008 - 22:34 — Anonymous (not verified)Ohhh Chuch, you still can't admit that Rivers ran your offense for four years and kept the program up and running. It was quite apparent who the rock of the program after he left and the program went down the toilet on both sides of the ball. And how about the depth issues now, I suppose that was somehow gonna be miraculously fixed? Is Chuck the Chest Harry Potter incarnate? Or maybe with those red shoes he was more like Dorothy...There's no place like home, glad he's back selling mediocrity to FSU.
delusional....
Fri, 10/10/2008 - 21:59 — Anonymous (not verified)delusional....
Maybe..maybe not
Fri, 10/10/2008 - 17:25 — Amatos (not verified)Could Amato turned it around? I guess we will never know, but Russell Wison was recruited by Amato and Wilson does show signs being a good qb. The running backs and TE are products of Amato, along with some pretty good players who left last year. I liked Amato but guess we will never know if it was gonna be as he speaks. Go Pack!
Blah, blah, blah
Fri, 10/10/2008 - 17:13 — JPDOhioIf Chuck didn't luck into Rivers when he walked in the door, his record would have been much different, and not in a good way. We saw the real Chuck as a coach after Philip was gone, and it was not pretty. TOB is still working on stopping the bleeding.
watching the FSU-Wake game...
Fri, 10/10/2008 - 17:33 — izzykareemthat's the only game ive seen of FSU this year, and that was an illustrious example of bad discipline and egregious penalties, exactly what we had here...but i was watching chuck on the sidelines with the players...that's what he likes to do, he's not really a coach, he wants to be friends to the players and that is where you lose control and eventually your team. At FSU he can be the friend, the guy that gets them pumped up, that can call a great defensive play, but he can't be a head coach. As TOB has said many times, the relationship players have is with the assistants but they play and perform for the Head Coach. That was the difference between Bunting and Butch-slap.
i think the estrogen and
Fri, 10/10/2008 - 14:37 — Anonymous (not verified)i think the estrogen and those man boobs are getting the best of old chuck's reasoning skills
Amato
Fri, 10/10/2008 - 14:18 — Anonymous (not verified)Looking back I would have to say the good Amato brought to NCSU outweighed the bad (by about the same ratio as his win/loss record). He did bring excitement and with that excitement money. There were some dissapointing loses but great wins as well. Notre Dame and Fla. St. a few times come to mind.
Wide-ranging
Fri, 10/10/2008 - 14:03 — California Wuffie (not verified)Every time you see "wide-ranging" and "head coach" and "news conference" in the same sentence, it means "get out your hip waders." Put a clothespin on your nose, too.
The level of delusion
Fri, 10/10/2008 - 14:01 — California Wuffie (not verified)Seven wins, well, that gets you on TV on Thursday night against Louisville. Seven wins brings you ESPN2 and Pam Ward calling your 12 pm tilt against Maryland. Seven wins, hello Micronpc.com bowl. It most certainly is not "big time." Also nearly double that came in one season alone. Again, Amato can't shoulder any of the responsibility for his disappointing tenure. It all has to be excused, explained or placed in some other context.
don't change things mid-stream huh...
Fri, 10/10/2008 - 13:48 — izzykareemthat explains at least one 3-9 season, sounds like no changes were made for the next 3-9 season either. Coach Amato is family, and sometimes, you have to tell your family members when they aren't getting it done as well, it happens.
But as has been witnessed, it wasn't gonna change, because who exactly were the mysterious recruits that were gonna turn it around? Who was the laser-eye/arm Rivers replacement who was gonna lead State back to some prominence...that's right, there wasn't one. How many more offensive coordinators were we gonna go through or defensive coordnators for matter?