Joe Amplo said that, around last Friday, things just started to feel
different. That’s what happens in Annapolis when the Army-Navy Game approaches.
“I can feel what you guys have been telling me. This one’s going to be different,” Amplo recalls saying to Mark Goers and Kirk Woolfolk, longtime fixtures around the coaching and athletics staff at Navy.
“You drive in the gates on the Yard, every human being that’s inside these gates, they want to beat Army. It doesn’t matter what their role is, they want to beat Army. You can be playing in the national championship game and not everyone in the gates knows who you’re playing and when you’re playing. Everybody knows who Army is, and every single human being wants to beat Army,” said Amplo, who will be coaching in the game for the first time.