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 dominate fought front game hard looks running
We fought hard and that was Jay's best game yet. He really commanded our team. Our running game looks good, but we need to dominate more up front on defense.
drives excuse help
Those are such nagging things that help keep drives going. There's no excuse for that.
focused wrong
If they're focused on me, they're focused on the wrong dude.
against best corners played receiver wide
No doubt. Those corners played their fannies off against the best wide receiver in the country.
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.
awful bad build close everybody expects good lost news nobody program takes
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.
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.
deserve felt good injuries themselves
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.
great pleased
We got a great quarterback that we're really pleased to have. That youngster's going to be something else.
best five football games greatest last might program rank six stepping stone
What they did five of the last six games has to rank as one of the best things this football program has ever done. You know, historically, we might look back and this could be one of the greatest wins. Because it could be a stepping stone for something big.
biggest goes hit hits maybe opening stadium
The opening kickoff set the tone. Oliver Hoyte goes down and makes the hit of the season. Maybe one of the biggest hits that's been at that stadium in a long, long time. We go in and score, and that really did set the tone.
full hit speed
We've hit a little bump, and we're going full speed ahead.