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...
blessed
I'm a very blessed person to be here.
best game might played
That might be Jay's best game he's ever played here.
game start worried
I'm really not worried about it. We're going to start the game and see how it's going.
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The blueprint, from the way they went about putting in a football program, has been outstanding. I think it's a model of how people should go from nothing to where they're at.
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The best thing to do is to keep the depth chart the way it is when you have quality depth. (But) you have to somehow get the best 11 on the field.
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The belief of these young men in never giving up ... we talked about character and walking around knowing you can win. This might be one of the biggest wins, when it is all said and done, this university could have had.
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As a parent and as a coach, you always hate to see an athlete leave any place before they get an education, before they get their diploma. That being said, I am 100 percent supportive of this young man's decision, in anything he does.
field missed opportunity turn
That one play did something to turn it all around. We missed the opportunity to make a play, and they just went down the field and steamrolled.
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Consider the source. Losing is frustrating if you've never put a jock strap on in your life. But for people that compete and know how to win and know what this game is all about, it's not hard. It can be if you don't have character, if you don't have a winning attitude. But if you're a winner, let's live to fight another battle.
eat night
It's what they eat the night before (that's important).
dropped freshmen guy mistake second true
It's going to be hard. Because all I know is that one time, two true freshmen are in there and one guy made a mistake on the first play, and then on the second play the other guy dropped a pass. They're true freshman. They've just got to get in there and play.
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It's about time we got one, and we almost didn't for the same reasons -- penalties.
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They are another good football team that the record may not show it. Boston College, overtime. Miami, overtime. They beat a good football team in Texas A&M. They beat a good Maryland football team, as we are seeing.
parents running talked water
I've talked to our trainers and managers. If we can't get (the running backs) in the game, we'll let them run the water out during timeouts. That way I can tell their parents they got on the field.