Tag: Amare Campbell

Gene Chizik says we’ll see more freshman nab playing time in Duke’s Mayo Bowl

With the UNC football team having nothing to lose in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl, defensive coordinator Gene Chizik will go deep into his roster.

Defense and the UNC football team don’t go well together.

We thought they did early in the season, as the Tar Heels jumped out to a 6-0 record and beat most opponents with relative ease. A 9-sack performance against South Carolina and holding Syracuse to single-digits had Tar Heel Nation believing – had UNC finally solved its historically, underperforming unit?

Think again.

In consecutive weeks, a pair of struggling UVA and Georgia Tech programs combined for over 1,000 yards against Carolina. We thought the woes went away with back-to-back wins against Campbell and Duke, but they resurfaced against a pair of middle-of-the-road offenses in Clemson and N.C. State.

With UNC having not much left to play for, expect for its first bowl victory since 2019, defensive coordinator Gene Chizik plans to give more playing time to a trio of freshman – Kaleb Cost, Tre Miller and Amare Campbell.

“Kaleb Cost is gonna be a guy you see more of than you’ve been seeing all year,” Chizik told Inside Carolina. “It’s a great opportunity for him – he gets three weeks to get ready. You’ll see Try Miller –we planned on playing him more earlier in the year, and then he had some health issues that set him back. Every time he seemed like he was going to move forward, he’d take a step back. We expect to see and play him a good bit at the corner spot. That’s great opportunities for him there. Amari Campbell, who is a guy that we probably should’ve played more during the year, he’s going to get his opportunity. Three young guys that are all freshmen, you’re going to see a god bit of. They’ve had good work and we expect them to play well. It’ll be interesting.”

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Campbell, a linebacker, registered 10 tackles (eight solo, one for loss) across 10 games. He also made a highlight play in UNC’s win over Syracuse, intercepting a Garrett Shrader pass and returning it 19 yards.

Miller, a defensive back, recorded a lone tackle in the Campbell game. According to UNC’s official stats, Cost has not appeared in a game this year.

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Virginia LB in contact with Goodwin, ‘would love to play’ at Clemson

Clemson is among a bunch of schools showing interest in this talented linebacker prospect who already has several Power Five offers and is coming off a strong junior season. Manassas (Va.) Unity Reed High School’s Amare Campbell told The Clemson …

Clemson is among a bunch of schools showing interest in this talented linebacker prospect who already has several Power Five offers and is coming off a strong junior season.

Manassas (Va.) Unity Reed High School’s Amare Campbell told The Clemson Insider recently that he has been in weekly contact with Wes Goodwin since he took over as the Tigers’ co-defensive coordinator/linebackers coach, following the departure of Brent Venables to Oklahoma.

“We talk like every week,” Campbell said of Goodwin. “He’s just telling me he wants me to come up there and he wants to see me work out. He loves my film, loves how I play. He just wants me to come down and wants to see me.”

Campbell (6-1, 205) is eyeing his first-ever visit to Clemson soon.

“I plan on visiting, probably junior day in January,” he said.

A class of 2023 prospect, Campbell has collected power conference offers from West Virginia, North Carolina, Duke and Maryland, while schools such as Oklahoma, Virginia Tech, Virginia and NC State have conveyed interest along with Clemson.

In addition to Clemson, Campbell is looking to visit schools like West Virginia, UNC and Duke moving forward into the offseason. He said he hopes to have his recruitment wrapped up and commitment made by the end of this year.

“I’m just taking it as the process goes along right now,” he added.

Campbell could see himself suiting up for the Tigers if they were to pull the trigger on an offer in the future.

“That’d probably be my biggest one yet. It would be great,” he said. “Clemson, they’re such a great school. I would love to play there. Just getting an offer (would) mean a lot. So, we’ll see how this next season with them goes and how Coach Goodwin goes. That’s definitely going to play a huge role if I do get a scholarship from them.”

Goodwin has already made a good impression on Campbell, who expects Goodwin to have success next season in his new role at Clemson.

“I didn’t think he was going to be how he was, but he seems like a pretty settled, calm guy,” Campbell said. “I feel like he knows what he’s doing. He’s been around Coach V (Venables) for quite a long time. So, I think he’ll do good this upcoming season.”

As for Campbell’s season in 2021, it went very well. He posted 100-plus tackles while earning first-team all-region and first-team all-district honors as a linebacker.

What kind of player will the program he commits to down the road be getting in him?

“I’d say they’d get a player that wants to learn, that’s willing to learn,” he said. “That type of player that’s willing to learn and he will give 100 percent every play, every down.”

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