Former North Carolina State coach Chuck Amato is returning to Florida State as part of Bobby Bowden’s major overhaul of his staff.

Amato, who was fired by North Carolina State in November, spent 18 seasons with Bowden through the program’s peak years in the 1980s and ’90s. The 60-year-old Amato succeeds Kevin Steele as executive head coach and linebackers coach. Steele left to become Alabama’s defensive coordinator.