N.C. State coach making excuses after 2 losses
Losing to Appalachian St., Akron, leaves Amato ripping foes, not himself
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I like Chuck Amato. He always was my favorite assistant at Florida State in the Seminoles' heyday. Now I just feel sorry for him.
Two weeks into the season, N.C. State has one loss to a MAC school and one near-loss to I-AA Appy State. And Coach Chest is diverting from the facts, the first sign of a season/coach heading south.
When asked how an ACC school can lose to a MAC school, Amato had this response during his weekly teleconference: "They're (Akron) in a conference that allows non-qualifiers. You know what kind of players non-qualifiers are, usually? They're inversely proportional to what their grade point average is. They can make a big difference."
In one swift move, Amato insulted a non-BCS conference, degraded high school kids who can't qualify on their first attempt to get into school, and — worse, whether he intended to or not — made a definitive statement about his ability to win with the players he has recruited.
If I'm an N.C. State player, how do I feel when my coach says Akron won because they have better players? Meanwhile, Akron has one — 1 — non-qualifier on this year's roster.
This is the first sign of a coach on the verge of losing his team. Instead of accepting blame and working toward fixing the problems, blame someone else.
What Amato should have said is: "We were out-played, out-coached, out-hustled. It's my fault; I didn't get this team ready to play." Instead, we'll hear more excuses next week when little 'ol Southern Miss beats N.C. State.
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N.C. State could do a lot worse than hiring J.D. Brookhart, who in three seasons has lifted Akron from the depths of the MAC to league champion in 2005 and league favorite this season.
Even with one non-qualifier.
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