White turned down an offer to play college football at Yale to walk-on at Georgia, but did not play a season with the Bulldogs, opting to transfer after head coach Jim Donnan was fired and replaced by Mark Richt.
He transferred to Wake Forest, where former Georgia assistant Brad Lambert was recently hired as their linebackers coach.
After working at Bank of America as a portfolio management analyst for a couple of years, White joined the coaching staff of his alma mater Wake Forest as a graduate assistant.
White was named the outside linebackers coach at Kentucky in 2018 as the 10th on-field assistant coach, joining his former defensive coordinator at Wake Forest, Dean Hood, who was the special teams coordinator at Kentucky at the time.
[6] He was promoted to defensive coordinator in 2019 after Matt House left to accept an NFL coaching position.