Calls For Bunting’s Job Grow Louder

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Today, the News & Observer is really focusing on the Bunting situation with a couple of articles, one of which is – “Clock ticks on Bunting”.. Additionally, this entry @ AOL highlights some recent articles.

Although it doesn’t surprise me that the world is FINALLY talking about the obvious…it continues to fascinate me how “hot” Chuck Amato’s seat has supposedly been (if you listen to the national media) while John Bunting has been able to skate by with a free pass from scrutiny with significantly worse performance than CTC.

It would be different if NC State fans REALLY were clamoring against Chuck Amato in large numbers that were disproportionate to any other fan base’s unhappiness, but the truth just does not support the onclusion that the media continues to juxtapose. Somebody says it…so it must be true!

As I stated almost two months ago in an entry that is very relevant to this entry, Coach Amato
has legitimate justification to be frustrated with the inconsistent recent media coverage of local programs. (Looks like the rest of the world is only two months behind what you see on SFN.)

This is no small issue as the coverage and focus as most definitely played a role in recent recruiting success at Carolina and decreased recruiting success in Raleigh. I am very pleased that we are finally getting a little ACCURATE focus on topic. It will be interesting to see if Carolina can hold together their strong recruiting class by signing day in light of some of the recent developments. The following are some key comments that I made in the previous entry.

The media’s inaccuracies and inability focus on the truth are starting to have a negative impact on the NC State program as it is various members of the media – at a level that is infinitely more intense than Wolfpack fans – that have insisted on writing articles about Coach Amato being “on the hotseat” while simultaneously (inaccurately) criticizing Amato for foolish reasons.

Think about this for a moment.

There is little to no doubt that John Bunting will be fired as UNC-CH’s football coach after this season if he turns in a performance that is just an average year for him. How much publicity is this topic getting? While Chuck Amato has succeeded in becoming one of the most successful football coaches in NC State history and has succeeded in elevating our program far above all other programs in the area, the media has decided to swarm like (uneducated) vultures on CTC’s job security.

The result? UNC-CH is experiencing one of the best recruiting classes in their history while NC State is experiencing our second slight downturn in a row from the standards of CTC’s first four recruiting classes.

Reality check…NC State’s program has quickly become an NFL factory while UNC’s has experienced more player turnover and attrition than is close to explicable. The success that Chuck Amato has generated at NC State dwarfs the overall success of what John Bunting has generated at Carolina in only one fewer season.

Yet, the media makes a huge deal of our successful coach being on “the hotseat” while Carolina’s unsuccessful coach gets NO public pressure or scrutiny and thereby allowing him to mislead recruits into thinking that his job is safe. Wouldn’t you be a little ticked at the idiocy and blatant disregard for reality?

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84 Responses to Calls For Bunting’s Job Grow Louder

  1. Cardiff Giant 09/27/2006 at 11:54 AM #

    ^ I have those same hopes, too.

  2. statered 09/27/2006 at 12:19 PM #

    Thats the point – if you actually listen to the interview you would see that he wasn’t cracking on Akron, he was saying that they have good players, players that would go to places like OSU if they had qualified initially. That they are better than Chip might think.

  3. Wulfpack 09/27/2006 at 12:37 PM #

    Yes, I understand Akron has some “good” players. The issue is that NC State University has many more “good” players on the roster than Akron has. If we don’t, it’d probably be wisest for Chuck not to share this information.

    I understand the reporter had an agenda. I understand these guys provoke and feed off irrational comments. It’s history now and we’re all moving on, but our guy had bettter learn from this and not feed these clowns any more meatballs.

  4. statered 09/27/2006 at 1:19 PM #

    OK I’ll agree with you there. Just one thing – it will never stop, no matter what a coach here does unless he is a complete and total loser doormat. The meida will never give us a fair shake or stop riding us.

    This whole idea of dealing with the media better will never truly happen, there will always be something. Its just the way it has always been so it is not even a consideration for me.

  5. tcthdi-tgsf-twhwtnc 09/27/2006 at 2:26 PM #

    A state employee that has for the most part failed at his job and drives a corvette around town = stupid.

  6. statered 09/27/2006 at 3:48 PM #

    So its the corvette you don’t like? LMFAO

  7. redfred2 09/28/2006 at 4:28 PM #

    I fought to stay awake and keep my car on the road through too many Wolfpack radio broadcast that said nothing, meant nothing to anyone listening, and did absolutely nothing for the NCSU athletics department. Except maybe to say that this is absolutely the most boring spot on the planet.

    After too many years of stomaching those ass kissing and defenseless antics involving NCSU and the media, and the insuing assaults on well intentioned Wolfpack fans who called in with questions, I don’t think I’ll be one who’s jumping all over an animated Chuck Amato for anything that he SAYS to the media.

    CA’s comments were not too bright considering the events and the timeframe, but it’s press. NCSU’s name is out there, being heard. In about two months ask some high school football player who’s not a Wolfpack fan, if they know who Chuck Amato is. Then ask them if they know what he said about Akron.

  8. Wolfpack4ever 09/29/2006 at 9:53 PM #

    Cardiff Giant, Yours is a valid interpretation. I assert, however, that the “Stupid” penalty wasn’t neccessarily stupid, it could have as easily been attributed to an error in judgement — approach angle by the player going for the block. He got to the punter in time with enough depth to block the punt and his hands were off the punters line and he missed the ball.

    Are you by any chance a PhD? Many of the PhDs I know are obsessed with stupidity — in particular proving their own lack of stupidity. AAMOF some of the most stupid people I know are PhDs. Accusing others of being stupid distances them from being stupid thenselves.

  9. Wolfpack4ever 09/29/2006 at 10:02 PM #

    Cardiff Giant Says:

    “^ Actually, I base my opinion on this premise: Citing the presence of three non-qualifiers on a MAC team, who has just beaten your ACC program in your own stadium, as a factor in that loss is just plain stupid. That’s all.”

    Actually, he didn’t cite the presence of three non-qualifiers as a factor in that loss. The non-qualifier thing was brought up and meant to be a jab at the media’s ignorance of such issues while asking a bunch of, pardon me if I borrow the term, stupid questions. Come to think of it, getting into a pissing contest with that bunch of skunks was a bit of a stupid thing to do — but not the non-existant non-qualifiers being a factor issue.

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