Had he not grown up in the environment, Derek Dooley almost certainly would still have known, still have consumed, still attempted to immerse himself in the ways and history of the Southeastern Conference. Dooley has no interest in living in the past; not his nor Tennessee's. Yet he also is self-aware of what he doesn't want his place in the Volunteers' annals to be.

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