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http://www.newsobserver.com/752/story/485335.html

Sorry if this have been posted already, but what a loser. Why can't he just take some blame here? Its always someone else's fault with this guy. I can't wait until he is gone.

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"Amato searching for answers Akron loss raises unsettling questions for the Wolfpack Lose to the Akron Zips, at Carter-Finley Stadium? How could it happen? Wolfpack coach Chuck Amato was asked that Monday: Should an ACC football program such as the Pack's lose at home to a team like Akron? "I don't know, I don't know," Amato said during his weekly news conference. "Should any team in the Atlantic Coast Conference lose to, you say 'a team like that.' ... They were the conference champions, they went to a bowl and I believe they won it. "Now what are you saying about that team? What are you trying to say?" Akron did win the Mid-American Conference championship last season, its first football title in the league. The Zips went to the Motor City Bowl and lost to Memphis, 38-31. But Akron plays in a dilapidated stadium, the Rubber Bowl. The Zips' facilities and football budget hardly match the Pack's. The oddsmakers made Akron a 10-point underdog for the game. Yet the Zips won. Before Saturday, only two nonconference teams had beaten the Wolfpack under Amato: Ohio State twice, and Pittsburgh in the 2001 Tangerine Bowl. Amato's teams have feasted on nonconference foes such as, well, Akron. "They're in a conference that allows nonqualifiers in school," Amato said. "Nonqualifiers. Y'all need to look that one up to write stories. "You know what kind of players nonqualifiers are, usually?" he asked. "They're inversely proportional to what their grade-point average is. They can make a big difference." Amato indicated that he had been told Akron had 10 nonqualifiers last season. Akron athletics spokeswoman Melanie Schneider confirmed Monday that the Mid-American Conference allows schools to bring in athletes who do not qualify academically under NCAA rules for freshman eligibility. Schneider said Akron had three nonqualifiers in the program last season and has one on the roster this season. As for the disparity in facilities between the two schools, which in theory should give a school a recruiting edge, Amato replied: "We just got the facilities. These facilities have just got built. They have not been here for 20 years. "We've won a lot of games here. When are you going to understand that? We really have." Losing to Akron was troubling for some of the State players. Senior safety Garland Heath, for one, said he "hadn't gotten over it yet." The Pack twice grabbed the lead in the fourth quarter, only to have the Zips drive 96 and 67 yards for touchdowns with relative ease. The winning score, a 1-yard run by Dennis Kennedy, came on the final play. "It was heartbreaking to lose a game in that fashion," receiver Darrell Blackman said Monday. "We fought back and took the lead ..." Amato said the Pack wasn't the only ACC team to struggle at home against nonconference teams. He didn't mention any by name, but Florida State eked out a 24-17 win over Troy and Virginia held off Wyoming 13-12 Saturday after the Cowboys missed an extra point in overtime. "We are an ACC team, and playing at home," Amato said. "And how many other ACC teams lost at home against somebody that the prognosticators said shouldn't? "Maybe a lot of teams will lose to Akron before the season is out. Let's let the season play out and ask me that same question at the end of the year, OK? I mean, let's let the season play out." The Pack plays Saturday at Southern Mississippi, a Conference USA school that's 1-1 after a 45-0 blasting of Southeastern Louisiana. The Golden Eagles opened their season at Florida, losing 34-7. A year ago, the Pack began to resurrect a season gone awry with a 21-17 comeback victory over Southern Miss at Carter-Finley. With tailback Andre Brown rambling for 248 yards and Marcus Stone making his first start at quarterback, State rallied with two fourth-quarter touchdowns. Stone began an interesting trend that day: an inconsistency passing the ball from half to half that continues and still confounds Amato and the coaching staff. Stone was 1-for-7 for 15 yards in the opening half against Southern Miss, with two interceptions, but finished 10-of-26 for 128 yards and one TD. For the season, he completed 29 percent of his passes in the first half and 59 percent in the second. Against Akron, it was more of the same. Stone was 5-of-16 for 49 yards in the first half as the Pack was scoreless. He then was 11-of-15 for 160 yards and two touchdowns in the second half. Why so erratic? "We've been asking that question for the last seven, eight games," Amato said. "I think he takes so much on his shoulders. He seems to be better [with] adversity. When he's right, which we saw the other day ..., [but] we've batted around that." Meaning the coaching staff. For Amato, it's another question without a ready answer."

9/15/2006 10:57:16 AM

God some people are fucking so dumb I want to kick them in the face and balls repeatedly. And I am not talking about Chuck - this shit is so fucking old...

9/15/2006 10:59:25 AM

one writer says the media has blown the comments out of proportion

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"RALEIGH - Chuck Amato made some interesting statements at his weekly news conference Monday, and they have been widely circulated and discussed throughout college football in the time since. Toward the end of a session that had been devoted mostly to N.C. State's 20-17 loss to Akron last week, Amato responded to continued questions about the loss with a reference to the fact that Akron and other Mid-American Conference schools allow academic non-qualifiers to play, unlike schools in BCS-affiliated conferences such as the ACC. The quotes have been published and republished in various forms and contexts, and they have drawn a variety of reactions. Some have taken the quotes as more whining and crying and excuse-making from Amato, who has said plenty of stuff that has come off as whining over the years. Some have taken them as ironic, since Amato has been known to recruit an academic non-qualifier or two and has never finished fourth or better in the ACC in graduation rates, either. Some have taken the quotes as outrageously inappropriate and embarrassing to the university. Some have formed no opinion other than to realize that they love seeing Amato squirm. And then some have taken the quotes as another case of the media poking at Amato until he finally erupted and gave them a quote they could run with. Some have taken the entire episode as further evidence that the media throughout the state is out to get Amato, is out to make his program and his school look bad whenever possible. Those who were at the news conference and saw the events unfold know the context of Amato's quotes and how and why they came about. And the truth is, several of those conclusions are correct and several aren't. Amato said what he said, and the quotes are now in black and white for all to see. They were eye opening. They were ill timed, and they did come off later as sour grapes. If you don't want to play teams that use non-qualifiers, don't schedule teams that take non-qualifiers. And if you don't like losing to Akron, then beat Akron. And yet, the comments were also the result of questions that had been asked repeatedly in various forms for three straight days. Amato fell on his sword several times in his news conference after the game, acknowledging his team's mistakes and crediting Akron for two fourth-quarter touchdown drives. Amato fell on his sword again in his Sunday teleconference with reporters, talking about how State would need to improve several areas before this weekend's trip to face Southern Mississippi. Amato continued to fall on his sword throughout the early stages of his Monday news conference and responded to questions in much the same manner as Jim Grobe or John Bunting or any other ACC coach would. And then, finally, he went across the line and delivered the lines you've been reading about and maybe laughing about ever since. This wasn't a case of Amato belly-aching from the start and looking for any excuse he could find to justify a loss to "a team like that," as the questions were eventually phrased. If it has been portrayed that way anywhere, it is inaccurate. At that point, Amato could have responded, "Asked and answered." He didn't, and that's what makes him Chuck and not, say, Herb Sendek. Or Dick Crum or Carl Tacy. Amato has often brought these moments on himself, and he has often fueled such tete-a-tetes. He seems to enjoy these little verbal skirmishes with the media during his conferences. He doesn't mind being poked, and he doesn't mind poking back. Sometimes the whole thing is childish, and other times it's refreshing. Sometimes he delivers some zingers and makes a few poignant points, and sometimes he goes into the deep end and starts babbling almost incoherently, unable to stay on one train of thought. Sometimes he is extremely frustrating for the media to deal with because he won't give a simple answer to a simple question, and yet other times he speaks volumes about topics that other coaches would never touch on the record. Here's an appraisal of Amato's comments on Monday. They are eye opening, for sure. They are not a slam on Akron, or Boise State. They are sour grapes if you read them by themselves. They are not the final words of a crusade to find any and every excuse for the loss. They are priceless, yet they don't deserve to be as costly as some would suggest. And they are revealing in many ways. But what do they really reveal? They reveal that Chuck is still Chuck and probably isn't going to change soon. He is going to do and say things to keep the bull's-eye on his chest, and he is going to keep puffing that chest out. He's going to do and say things that critics can latch onto and have a field day with. And he's going to keep coming back for the next news conference after the next game or on the following Monday. That's a good thing and a bad thing. Getting a rise out of Chuck Amato is like shooting fish in a barrel for anyone in the media. And after a loss to Akron, or after any loss so avoidable and so full of bizarre blunders, Amato is fair game. But the thing that makes Amato different than some is that, even when he's a fish in a barrel and the bullets are raining on him, he's still wiggling. He's still swimming, and sometimes even tossing a few verbal grenades back. He doesn't give up, even if he does something that complicates matters in the process. That's one reason State turned last season around, after it was 2-4 and the bullets were really flying. That's why it's way too early to write this team off, especially with a schedule that suggests that State can be a very mediocre team and still make it to a bowl game. That's why Amato's critics will never run him off. He's not Herb. If State wins Saturday, you can expect a few barbs as he gloats in victory. If State loses Saturday, you can expect ... well, who knows? Expect anything."

9/15/2006 11:02:26 AM

I don't remember when but I know he took the blame at least once in the last couple of years.

9/15/2006 11:10:22 AM

In other news, Roger Maris recently hit 61 home runs, surpassing the long standing record of 60 held by Babe Ruth.

9/15/2006 11:11:03 AM

werd

9/15/2006 11:20:30 AM

WE'VE LANDED ON THE MOON!

9/15/2006 11:24:16 AM

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"I don't remember when but I know he took the blame at least once in the last couple of years."

UNC loss @ home last year. That's still painfully vivid in my head.

9/15/2006 11:25:13 AM

has anyone thought that maybe Amato makes the comments to the media that he makes to get them talking about him rather than harrasing his players....a couple years ago and last year, the media kept attacking Jay Davis...maybe Chuck is saying if I take the bulls eye on me, then my players wont have added pressure on them...just a thought...I still support Chuck...

9/15/2006 11:56:05 AM

^hadn't thought of it in that manner.... Amato isn't exactly an idiot....

9/15/2006 12:03:37 PM

^^if that's true I'd expect him to show up to the next game naked.

9/15/2006 12:05:40 PM

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"They were the conference champions, they went to a bowl and I believe they won it."

Shows how much Chuck knows. They fucking lost their bowl game to Memphis.

Good scouting. We wonder why we are losing...do they watch game film?

9/15/2006 4:04:17 PM

^I believe they got their ass kicked if I'm not mistaken

9/15/2006 5:16:13 PM

no it was close i heard something like 35 38

9/15/2006 5:36:49 PM

31-38

9/15/2006 5:46:32 PM

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"I don't remember when but I know he took the blame at least once in the last couple of years."

He did take the blame for this loss.

the problem here is people are only gettin half the story.

9/15/2006 6:05:50 PM

i know i've said it a lot, but...

we got rid of the wrong coach.

9/15/2006 6:23:24 PM

^fuck you

9/15/2006 8:06:03 PM

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"i know i've said it a lot, but... we got rid of the wrong coach."

9/15/2006 8:08:22 PM