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White leaves alma mater for chance to be D-coordinator

The Hilltoppers’ new defensive coordinator spent the last four seasons coordinating special teams and coaching safeties at his alma mater, North Carolina State.

White, a North Carolina native, lived in between Raleigh, where he coached at N.C. State, and Durham, where his wife Kelly was a physical therapist for sports teams at Duke.

White was happy living in a place he knew and coaching at a school where he was a standout linebacker from 1998-2000.

But then new WKU coach Mike Sanford called and offered White the chance to be a D-coordinator for the first time in his career.