The NCAA required the second-year University of Tennessee football coach to attend last weekend’s 11-hour Committee on Infractions hearing, though Dooley was not implicated in either of the two major charges against the Volunteers’ football program. Though he would have preferred spending the weekend of his 43rd birthday with his family in Knoxville, Dooley made sure he used the COI hearing as a learning experience. “I made the comment that it wasn’t something I wanted to do, but when I sat through it, there were a lot of lessons that I took from it,” Dooley said late last week at the Bradley Sunrise Rotary Sunset Gala in Cleveland. “I do think when you see how one bad choice or one bad decision can impact so many different lives, it resonates with you. I think it was also sort of a good reminder of how the landscape is changing. It really is, moving away and putting more and more responsibility on the head coach to really have command of the whole shop. It’s challenging to be able to do that, but that’s the landscape right now.”
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