CHAPEL HILL
Bill Dooley, the longest-tenured football coach in school history at North Carolina, died on Tuesday in Wilmington. He was 82 and died of natural causes, his family said in a statement released by UNC.
Dooley was the head coach at UNC from 1967 through 1977, before leaving to become the head coach at Virginia Tech. He spent nine seasons there and six seasons, from 1987 through 1992, at Wake Forest.
In 26 seasons as a head coach his teams won 162 games.
And in an era in which it was more difficult to qualify for a bowl game, Dooley guided his teams to the postseason 10 times.