KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Joshua Dobbs sat over a half-empty plate of seafood, unfinished business gnawing away at him.
Hours earlier, he'd played in April's spring game, and he was supposed to be enjoying a postgame dinner with his parents. But he was preoccupied.
A pair of families had waited by the Tennessee football locker room hours earlier, hoping their kids could meet the Volunteers senior quarterback.
One was from nearby Sweetwater, and Dobbs had hoped to visit with them after months earlier other obligations caused him to miss a speaking engagement at their son's high school football banquet he had planned to attend.