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Chuck Amato General NCS Football

144 Responses to Fired Coach 23, Soon To Be Fired Coach 9

  1. Chuck Amato 11/18/2006 at 6:45 PM #

    You people amaze me. Those kids played their fannies off.

  2. beowolf 11/18/2006 at 6:47 PM #

    Honestly, I cannot see how Chuck Amato can’t resign after this.

  3. 98st8 11/18/2006 at 6:51 PM #

    ECU goes to Conf uSA championship if they win… they will rock our house next weekend if this happens

  4. Micky McCarthy 11/18/2006 at 6:53 PM #

    I must say, we have the wittiest fans in the world. In a twisted way, I really enjoy coming on the boards after our losses to see the funny shit people say. Its sad, but its true, being a State fan instills humility and a sense of humor.

  5. 98st8 11/18/2006 at 6:55 PM #

    RICE WINS!!!!!!

  6. NCSUDude17 11/18/2006 at 6:59 PM #

    ECU loses to Rice, Rice Lost big the FSU, FSU loses to NCSU, hmmm

  7. golf76 11/18/2006 at 7:05 PM #

    The only way any change is going to be made regarding CTC is to make enough noise to make things too uncomfortable for JED and the powers. Letters, e-mails, phone calls, personal visits, demonstrations, etc. from the big contributors as well as the small, will force a move. I think Chuck is probably an OK guy but he can’t coach to the level NCSU needs. We all need to make some noise. I graduated from State 31 years ago and I’ve never seen NCSU athletics this bad!

  8. highstick 11/18/2006 at 7:06 PM #

    You ain’t gonna get Steve Spurrier@!!! That’s the only place I can go and watch a team and coach actually try to win games lately! I couldn’t face watching the mess on TV today and went to Columbia to watch a blowout. Now on to Clempson!

    I think everybody’s missing the point! Fowler and Amato need to go! We need a full housecleaning!

  9. chilly water 11/18/2006 at 7:13 PM #

    SEROUSLY GUYS, who is responsible for LEE FUCKUP, lee AND chuck need to go!!!!!!

  10. redfred2 11/18/2006 at 7:21 PM #

    “Fowler and Amato need to go! We need a full housecleaning!”

    THE EMPHASIS ISN’T THERE, all the way to the top of the food chain.

    With all of those losers in Raleigh right now, I am hoping Sidney Lowe is smart enough to keep his distance.

    If the current think tank at NCSU is lucky enough (AGAIN) to land a decent head football coach, the general NCSU mindset will bring him down and ruin him in five years.

  11. 1.21 Jigawatts 11/18/2006 at 7:21 PM #

    One thing I’ve noticed about our offense when comparing it to teams that win. I think the majority of our receivers/backs could play for any team in the country and succeed, when they have the ball. It’s when they don’t have the ball and the play doesn’t involve them getting it is where they’d never make it. For example, our backs are horrible at making a block, whether picking up a blitz or hitting a LB or Secondary back to open up the play for a teammate. Another example would be a receiver blocking his man for a RB to pick up yards on the outside.

    Now we all know that the OL is horrible. Too many times I see a lack of communication on the OL as to assignments. Many times over the season, even today, I’d see a tackle block the guards assignment when a LB is lined up for a blitz on the outside of the tackle. That leaves the blitzing LB/Safety with a free shot at the QB. Then it comes back to my first point where the RB fails to pick up that blitzer.

    It’s the basics by the players who don’t have the ball during the play which is the difference between winning and losing. Yes, penalties and execution by the players with the ball are also a part it. It still all comes back to coaching. If you don’t teach them what to do it’s the coaches fault. If you do teach them and they don’t do it, yet you don’t make the necessary diciplinary actions to fix it, then it’s still the coaches fault.

    As for the defense, they’re doing everything they can for 90% of the game. It’s just the lapses in concentration or bad breaks that give up the points. But holding teams to less than 20 points a game should get you a win 75% of the time. That is if you had an average Offense it would.

  12. WestCoast 11/18/2006 at 7:40 PM #

    Who do we open up with in 2007?

  13. cowdog 11/18/2006 at 7:41 PM #

    Ya know..I backed Herb for a long time, but eventually I asked my dentist if he would consider late night appointments…game night appointments.

    Having played for Chuck once upon a long time ago, I was thrilled at his hire and have done my best catching arrows intended for him around town and my favorite establishment.
    I was at Keenan today. I called my dentist at the end of the 1st quarter.

  14. redfred2 11/18/2006 at 7:56 PM #

    There is not a more bland, middle of the road, and simple minded group of administrators at any DI university in the country. It’s totally non existent, but shows up every time you turn around. Things like, two events scheduled at the same time, and more than once, no publicity generated about the biggest change in years, and no promotion of the actual event when it takes place. I am sick of the do nothing leadership in Raleigh.

    NC State doesn’t know what it is or even what it stands for anymore. You can bring in all of the great coaches you want, but until the whole attitude about athletics changes from the paralyzing 1990 mindset, this place is going nowhere.

    Mediocre people, mediocre results. NC State just doesn’t have what it takes to build anything sustainable, and that’s why middle of the road has always been totally acceptable and good enough to keep marching right along.

  15. GoldenChain 11/18/2006 at 8:16 PM #

    Don’t worry our trusted friend Jed will certainly fix us up!

  16. 1U9N8C9 11/18/2006 at 8:28 PM #

    I feel for you guys. Obviously I’m a TarHeel — save the hate, I come peace — but I agree with you that Amato needs to go. And as good a guy as he is, I had to agree with the decision to let Bunting go. He really is a helluva good guy, he’s just not getting the job done. I think the real problem at both UNC and NC State is the Athletic Directors. I’m not sure what could be done about it, but both schools need a housecleaning.

    One thing I can’t understand with State fans, though, is the amount of self-loathing that goes on, especially after a loss to Carolina. I have friends who went to State, my brother-in-law and my sister both went to State, and every time State loses to UNC, I hear the same litany: “our coach sucks, our team sucks, our stadium sucks, the parking lot sucks, the guy who sold me my soda sucks…” Why is that? Seriously, I think getting rid of Bunting was the right move, but it still breaks my heart to see him go.

    I didn’t come here to rub it in, and as much as I disagree with the way Baddour handled Bunting’s firing, I’m glad we got in our “early coach shopping.” Good luck to you all, and remember: Duke is the real enemy.

  17. Micky McCarthy 11/18/2006 at 8:30 PM #

    redfred2 has summed up my feelings in three of the most spot on paragraphs ever penned. I love my alma mater, but he speaks the truth. As I have said so many times, we have become ODU with a football team.

  18. quackpipe 11/18/2006 at 8:36 PM #

    “Who do we open up with in 2007?”

    The spring game. Which we’ll probably lose.

  19. Mike 11/18/2006 at 8:42 PM #

    The outcome was pitiful, and I am as upset as anyone. However, Chuck finally made the right call to go for it. I know a lot of you disagree, but look at the rationale. In my mind, it was the only thing to do.

    2:30 left and 3 timeouts, ball on 15 yd line. If we punt, the play takes 15 seconds off the clock, and we only punt 35 yards to the 50. Clock starts, so we have to burn TO1 before 1st down. They run on 1st down, takes 7 seconds off clock. This means 2:08 after we burn TO2. Run again, down to 2:00 and we are now outof TO’s, and they still have the ball, worst case on the 50. Run the ball again, take off 8 seconds for the play, 15-20 seconds to fart around before setting the clock for the next play. Now it is 4th down and the clock shows about 1:30. Now run off the 25 seconds and we are down to 1:05. Punt takes another 15 seconds and we have 50 seconds left, deep in our own territory, probably inside the 10 to start our drive with no TO’s. Now, clock starts at change of posession, and by the time we snap it, we have 45 seconds to go 90 yards.

    If we punt and they get one 1st down, we never get the ball back. Who knows, we might even line up off sides again in our angst to stop them.

    Now if the ball were on the 50, and we could punt, pin them deep, and hope to get the ball back, maybe punting is right. Where we were on the field, we needed to keep the ball for any hope of the tying score.

    At the time we went for it, I did the quick math and thought we had to go. Chuck agreed. I figured we might get it back with 20-25 seconds then, and now that I have had time to do the math more accurately, I see we had a little more, but still not enough time. We had to go for it. Results stunk, but the call was right.

  20. Mike 11/18/2006 at 8:42 PM #

    One more thing – score 24 and we win. How many times have we said that?

  21. Woof Wolf 11/18/2006 at 8:46 PM #

    One good call in seven years? Wow!

  22. redfred2 11/18/2006 at 8:51 PM #

    woof wolf found an article a while back with some comments from Barbara Casey, former NC State AD Willis Casey’s wife. I thought this ought to be appropriate right about now, since we’re talking about making changes that really might make a difference.

    “It was through his eyes I learned that collegiate sports was not “just a game,� and that a winning athletics program was much more far-reaching than I had ever imagined. It influenced things like student enrollment, scholarships, donations, accreditations, standing within the community, and even the personal development of young men and women.�

    She was speaking of athletics in general, and the role her husband, (((THE AD))), had in cultivating those aspects at NC STATE UNIVERSITY.

    Try telling that to the NCSU administration now, or for that matter, any of them after the year 1990.

  23. Mike 11/18/2006 at 8:51 PM #

    Well, one good call………if the rest of the calls would have been better, this would not have been an issue. Amazes me how EVERYONE has run all over them, except us.

  24. Apextim 11/18/2006 at 8:55 PM #

    I am a sadden Wolfpack fan that will NOT wear my RED till Chuck is Gone. I used to have season tickets but gave them up this year as a mild form of protest. Sorry but Drastic Meaures are needed. I am sick of the UNdiscipled players and lack of attention to details. POOR COACHING- the only excuse. I was in Park Place Theaters Friday night (11/17) watching the NEW 007 Movie with (by accident) the WHOLE UNC TEAM. Bunting was there and I will say they were the most polite young lads I have ever witnessed in a sports group. Our THUGS can not compare! Chuck your style (or lack of) is a disgrace to Wolfpack Suppoters. You say Integrity, Discipline, Finish all the BUZZ words, but you CANT get our players to live up to those words. I hold you responsible and only YOU. YOU must go, and we need to find a true leader not a MOCK Coach. If it wasn’t for Philip Rivers, you’d have been long gone, you can’t recruit and can’t coach- GET a REAL job like the rest of us hard working fans, Lee Fowler, you are to blame too! Go now and FIX what you just BROKE!

  25. Duffy Dorton lll 11/18/2006 at 9:06 PM #

    What will it take to rid us of Fowler and Chucko the Clown? We went through hell with Herb and now Chucko the Clown. The next thing you know Fowler will hire Jimmy Spencer (nascar fame) to coach our chess team. For Gods sake rid State of Fowler and Clown Boy.

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