NC State head football coach Chuck Amato has announced long-time BYU assistant coach Norm Chow will join the Wolfpack staff, and will serve as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Chow has spent the last 22 years at Brigham Young University, where he has coordinated the Cougar offense since 1985, was assistant head coach, and directed the quarterbacks and wide receivers.
Norm is an extremely bright, hard-working and innovative football coach.
He will definitely be a tremendous asset to the North Carolina State football program. Chow, who was named the 1999 National Assistant Coach of the Year by the American Football Foundation, coached Heisman Trophy and two-time Davey O'Brien winner Ty Detmer, as well as two other O'Brien Trophy winners in Steve Young and Jim McMahon. I Offensive Coordinator of the Year and the 1993 Athlon National Assistant Coach of the Year. He coached in 20 bowl games for the Cougars, including the 1984 Holiday Bowl victory over Michigan to win the National Championship. When you think about BYU, you think of offensive firepower, and Norm is a big factor in that reputation.