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 had four shots to win it and he's the guy who got us down there. He's just so much better this year than last year because he's got those 11 games under his belt and now he's got four more under his belt.
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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'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've been playing great defense the last six games. The front has been playing great and the kids just played their butts off today.
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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.
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I saw it about a month ago, I laughed. You know me, you know I like to have fun, I like to enjoy life. If you're going to laugh at other people, you have to be able to laugh at yourself.
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Penalties set up a touchdown for them and took away scoring opportunities from us. We had some foolish penalties and some guys got one who hadn't had one in two years.
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Penalties, penalties, penalties. But you know what, nobody on that team ever gave up. Nobody on that team ever quit. Nobody thought we wouldn't hold them and go into overtime or do something big in the end zone.
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We have stressed penalties and turnovers more than anybody in the country could. Silly penalties now, silly penalties that really cost us big.
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We have a hard time waking up everybody.
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I tell it like it is. Nobody can make that decision except the man himself. He's the one that's got to make it, and don't look back. Don't you dare look back.
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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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Stay at State and run the basketball program into the ground, Herb.
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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.