'Never Failed': How Amato and Avent brought Wilson to NC State
Posted May 5, 2021 7:24 a.m. EDT
Updated May 5, 2021 8:45 a.m. EDT
If Tom O'Brien and Russell Wilson disagreed about Wilson splitting his time between baseball and football, how did Wilson get to NC State in the first place?
Great question and also part of the answer to how Wilson ended up exiting. O'Brien wasn't the football coach who recruited Wilson out of Richmond Collegiate high school in 2006, Chuck Amato was.
Amato had a rich experience with two-sport stars in his time as an assistant coach at Florida State, so he welcomed the opportunity for Wilson. O'Brien, not so much at Virginia, Navy and Boston College.
Episode 2 of Never Failed: The Russell Wilson Story dives into how Wilson got to NC State and how a coaching change set the tone for future problems for Wilson.