Bennie Wylie, the Texas Tech football team’s strength and conditioning coach the last five years, has been hired by Tennessee. The Volunteers announced the move Saturday, and it also was confirmed by a Tech spokesman. Wylie, 33, is the second member of former Tech coach Mike Leach’s staff to accept an offer from new Tennessee coach Derek Dooley. Former Tech special teams coach Eric Russell was hired in the same capacity shortly after Dooley left Louisiana Tech for Tennessee in mid-January. “It’s just a great opportunity to be here with coach Dooley and be on the front end of this movement,” Wylie said in a statement released by the Tennessee athletic department. “I’m ready to get this program back on top of the SEC and I’m just really excited about the kids we have here. We have great talent, and I’m just really excited to work with those guys just as soon as I get here.” Wylie had been retained on a six-month trial basis by new Tech coach Tommy Tuberville after Tuberville was hired on Jan. 9.
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