Bill Dooley, a three-time football coach of the year in the Atlantic Coast Conference who piled up 162 wins at North Carolina, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest, died on Tuesday at his home in Wilmington, N.C. He was 82.
His wife, Marie, confirmed his death but did not specify the cause.
Dooley took his teams to a combined 10 bowl games. He was the first North Carolina coach to win 11 games, leading the 1972 Tar Heels to an 11-1 finish, and he remains the only coach to have led the university to multiple A.C.C. championships in football.