We have heard from various people on campus this morning that Amato has been fired. We have no way to “verify” how accurate the story is, but it seems to be coming from all angles. We are not going out on a limb and “reporting” that it has happened, we are just passing on what we have heard. If and when we receive any more updates we will post them on the blog.
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[...] The chesty coach, whose raspy, high-pitched delivery sounds like a Bronx-bred Mickey Mouse, is almost certainly in the death throes of the Countdown to Kickout. Like Larry Coker, Amato’s a “Dead Coach Walking”; NC State has made no formal announcement, but considering that the Amato’s Wolfpack was submerged and suffocated in pitch and turpentine by the fang-less Tarheels — losing 23-9! — it seems likely that Amato will not return for a seventh season at his alma mater. NCSU is rumored to have made the internal decision to fire Amato and begin seeking a new head coach for the program. [...]
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[...] It was quite a week of rumor and innuendo for NC State Football. It publicly started on Monday when we shared that we were getting a lot of chatter and rumors that Chuck Amato had been fired. These rumors intensified by the way that NC State handled Monday’s football press conference. [...]
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November 20th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Wow.
And Jed?
November 20th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
You cannot defend Chuck. I wont try. If he gets fired, he earned it.
I just cannot believe that anyone thinks Lee Fowler can handle a coaching search. The man is a walking calamnity. Worst case scenario ist Chuck coming back. Its what happens if Chuck is fired.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Mr Fowler should be filling a position this offseason.
Mr Oblinger should be filling a position next offseason.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Dan, who says he will handle it? I’d suggest we learn something from our big brother down the road and hire someone to handle it for us.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
UNC did much better their 2nd time around, so maybe Lee learned something.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
I’ve heard it through several usually reliable folks as well. Can’t verify it, but the talk is rampant.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Southbeachstyle: UNC had to talk to one coach. That search wasn’t very complex. Even Baddour could have handled that one.
Agree that we will need to go a different route than just let Fowler handle this hiring. Hopefully, the folks making this happen have a plan and have been working on it for sometime.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
I’ve had a palpable sense about it all day, though I have absolutely no information to support that sense.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
It looks like I’ll be hitting F5 twenty times a day for the next 2 months… again
November 20th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
I, too, hope that Fowler learned something from the basketball coaching search. Hopefully, he will admit he doesn’t “know football” well enough to go this one alone.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
I’m with Cardiff. I live in Tennessee and I can feel it all the way out here. Something is just out of kilter in Wolfpack Nation. The pressure is tremendous for change.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Fool us once, shame on Jed.
Fool us twice, shame on us.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
I talked to one guy that said Amato met with his staff Sunday morning for a good hour or so and that Amato was visibly concerned about the status of his job. I’ve also heard that the decision was made as early as two weeks ago to let him go and the loss to Carolina simply made it easier give him the bad news now.
As far as the Carolina search went, I heard that Baddour was pretty much hands off behind the scenes on that search. The Heels apparently put together a committee to go after Davis and left Baddour to be solely a mouthpiece for the committee.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Well, BillyTough jumping ship, as well as The Technician, can’t have helped Amato’s cause.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
Hey folks. I hope you all don’t mind me joining up here but my work blocks me from going to PackPride’s message boards but I can get to this blog.
I wish Amato nothing but the best if this is true.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
I pray there has been behind the scenes talks with the eventual successor assuming these rumors are true. Another taxing coaching search is not what NC State needs right now. I think the media’s hatred for Amato is going to make this much less painful than the post-Sendek search, but we still don’t need a long drawn out search with the perception of bungled talks going on.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
I hate that news. We had better make a quick top notch hire.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Actually, from what I’ve heard of the UNC-Ch search, Baddour was basically told, “Sit back, we’ll handle this.” Lee should be told the same thing. He can’t use the same “good-ole boy/backroom” searching method that brought such disgrace to NC State last time around. If this is a done deal, a search firm should be contracted and allow them to handle all the stuff that Lee failed at. 2 weeks later, Lee shows up at a press conference shaking hands w/ the new coach.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Who says that Jed will be given enough power to actually lead the search? He ‘knew basketball’ and look how that went.
I’ve got a feeling that his influence in this process will be severely more limited than will shared in public.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
IF- this is true, the mythical “powers that be” deserve kudos for doing this quickly. Typically, that’s not State’s style, but it should be.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
True. This means that Lee Fowler was absolutely rolled if this is true.
Now, if it is, the question is whether we will allow Jed to flounder around like he did with the basketball situation or will we put grownups in charge of the coaching search.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
From what I’ve heard, Wendell was ready for this during the GT game, so, after the loss to Virgina.
This will be interesting. Miami, UNC, and NC State all angling for a new head coach. A consultant must be used this time around.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
“Actually, from what I’ve heard of the UNC-Ch search, Baddour was basically told, “Sit back, we’ll handle this.â€?”
Thats exactly what happened. Well, they weren’t as nice as that. All you need to know about Baddour is that his top candidate was reportedly David Cutcliffe.
November 20th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
what’s the beef with Oblinger? the tailgate thing?
November 20th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
if this is true, it would have been reported somewhere else, I think it is just wishful thinking. not getting my hopes up