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...
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.
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.
condition game good
I don't know if we were in as good game condition as we have been in the past.
beat boston football good maryland record team texas
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.
athletics good runs seen
I've never seen so many long runs on kickoffs. Darrell Blackman is an awfully good athlete.
expect good help man quite stepped week
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.
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.
months since taking
With Dunlap, we're taking it real slow. It's only been eight-and-a-half months since Dunlap had his operation, so we want him healthy.
great pleased
We got a great quarterback that we're really pleased to have. That youngster's going to be something else.
basketball break classes fall fortunate friday missing starting weeks
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.
defense front great kids last played playing six
We've been playing great defense the last six games. The front has been playing great and the kids just played their butts off today.
answer dropping questions running
We are dropping too many passes. If that continues, then that'll answer your questions about what we are going to do with all those running backs. We'll put the wishbone in.
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.