Back with the Pack

For eight consecutive years, football schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference have been looking up to Florida State in the league standings. Nobody has hit upon a formula to unseat the Seminoles as one of the most dominant programs in NCAA history. So North Carolina State decided to take a new approach in its search for a football coach. Instead of hiring a big-name head coach like Georgia\'s Jim Donnan or Stanford\'s Tyrone Willingham, both of whom were considered, the Wolfpack decided on a course of action that no other ACC school had previously taken. In attempt to catch FSU, they tapped into Bobby Bowden\'s talented pool of assistant coaches to hire Chuck Amato, a logical choice given the double luxury that he brings to N.C. State. Not only does Amato deliver 18 years of insider knowledge about FSU\'s program, but as a Wolfpack alumnus and 10-year former assistant coach at N.C.