By, Matt Alkire – National Director of Football Operations
Upper Hand Promotions is proud to welcome Coach Vincent
White to our team as a Multi-Sport Regional Director who will work out of
Pennsylvania. White came to Upper Hand after coaching wide receivers at Fordham
University who had a potent passing attack and helped develop All-Conference
wideout Brian Wentzel.
Before Fordham, he spent a year as New Mexico’s running
backs coach and five years at Southeast Missouri State where he wasboth
assistant head coach andoffensive coordinator.
White was head coach of Division I-AA St. Mary’s College in
2003 where he put together an extremely impressive staff. Derek Mason has moved
on to be head coach at Vanderbilt, Lance Anderson is now defensive coordinator
at Stanford, Steve Clark is offensive coordinator at Weber State and Sanjay Lal
a wide receivers coach with the New York Jets.
He previously served as running backs coach at Utah, Arizona
State and Pittsburgh. While at Utah, he helped lead the Utes to a victory over
USC in the 2001 Las Vegas Bowl and was extremely involved in the progression of
Dameon Hunter. Hunter rushed for over 1,300 yards that season and led Utah to
the 12th best rushing attack in the nation for 2001.
White also coached at SMU, Maryland, Delaware State,
Pacific, Tennessee-Martin and Oregon Tech.
As a player, White lined up behind John Elway for the
Stanford Cardinal and led the nation in receptions as a senior in 1982,
catching 69 passes. He racked up 1,275 all-purpose yards and 15 scores on his
way to first-team All Pac-Ten and honorable mention All-American honors.
While he was drafted in the sixth round of the 1983 NFL
Draft by the New York Jets, White instead chose to play for the Denver Gold of
the USFL. He was there from 1983 to 1985 and finished his Sociology degree from
Stanford during that time.
Coach White graduated from Denver Mullen High School and he
and his wife Jennifer have three children – Isaac, Avery and Ashly.
“To be able to work with someone with so much experience in
football is one thing, but to gain a man who possesses such passion for not
only their craft, but helping student athletes is another. Vincent White
immediately shows himself as a family man that prides himself on being selfless
while taking great pride in his work. I look forward to him being an enormous
part of Upper Hand for the future and am thrilled to work with him.” – Matt
Alkire
