{"id":1939097,"date":"2026-10-19T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939097"},"modified":"2026-10-19T19:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T23:22:40","slug":"pack-mourns-loss-of-iconic-former-head-coach-chuck-amato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1939097","title":{"rendered":"Pack Mourns Loss of Iconic Former Head Coach Chuck Amato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chuck Amato coached NC State State football as the head coach from 2000-06 and was an assistant at a separate, prior stint\" src=\"https:\/\/gopack.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/10\/19\/lf-amatoredshoes1_nZCEe.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It took a while before Chuck Amato could be convinced to play football at NC State. It took even longer \u2014 more than 20 years \u2014 before the university was convinced, in 2000, to hire him as its its head football coach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gopack.com\/news\/2026\/10\/19\/football-pack-mourns-loss-of-iconic-former-head-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took a while before Chuck Amato could be convinced to play football at NC State. It took even longer \u2014 more than 20 years \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1939098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1939097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939099,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939097\/revisions\/1939099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1939098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1939097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1939097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1939097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}