“Chuck It” has been the name of the recycling program at N.C. State football games for the past four seasons, but with the program’s namesake – former coach Chuck Amato – fired on Nov. 26, indications are the program will change names.

But before anything can officially happen, the Athletics Department, students from the program, corporate sponsor Waste Industries and Wolfpack Sports Marketing will meet next Monday to discuss the future name and logo of the program.

Lindsay Batchelor, the program director, said the program’s services will remain the same, but the name and logo will change. She said there has been some confusion on that point among some fans.

“Nothing’s happening to the program,” Batchelor said. “And I guess that was a common misconception with people that “Chuck It” belonged to Chuck Amato or that he created it.”

It was actually Paul Mobley, a 2006 graduate of State and now a graduate student at Stanford, who originally came up with the idea and the name for the recycling plan for football games. It has included pick-up trucks known as “Chuckwagons” collecting recyclables and has also featured recycling bins in the parking lots around Carter-Finley Stadium.

Mobley said in the past he decided the name could fit the program with or without Amato.

“From the beginning, people would always ask what you would do if Chuck left. And we always said the name would still be applicable to chucking in your recycling and we’d probably just keep the name and change the graphic,” Mobley said. “That was kind of the thought from day one.”

And while he says the name still could fit, he added he’s waiting to see who State hires as its next coach.

“I still think it could be possible to keep the name, but my feeling now is wait and see [who] the next coach is and see if we can get something off of his name or something like that,” Mobley said.

Meanwhile, though, the Athletics Department has informed the student leaders of the program that it wants to discuss the name of the program.

Chris McHenry, a senior in electrical engineering who coordinated volunteers for the program during the 2006 season, said he will propose keeping the same name as a potential option at the upcoming meeting.

“They don’t want us to keep the name,” McHenry said. “But we’re probably going to put that option on the table of potentially keeping the name and just changing the logo when we do meet with them.”

McHenry also said if the program’s name changes, some of the students will want it to take on a more lasting flavor.

“We’re actually kind of open with suggestions,” McHenry said. “If we did change the name, we’d probably try and make it independent of the coach so that if we do end up going through this process again, it can live on without being affected.”

And while it all plays out, Mobley said the program he thought up still weighs heavily in his thoughts – he even volunteered as part of it at the beginning of the school year before leaving for California. He even joked he might put in a call to Athletics Director Lee Fowler to get a coach with a catchy enough name to put on a recycling program.

“I may talk to Lee Fowler and see if he can consider that in his choice,” Mobley said.