White comes to Kansas City after serving as assistant head coach with St. Louis from ‘97-99 under current Chiefs head coach Dick Vermeil where he was part of the Rams staff which claimed a win in Super Bowl XXIV following the ’99 season. White and Vermeil will be united for the fourth time during their careers in Kansas City. Prior to their association with the Rams, the tandem had previously coached together at UCLA (‘74-75) when Vermeil was the Bruins head coach. The duo also worked together as assistant coaches for Stanford from ‘65-68.

Before joining the Rams, White spent seven years as a coach with the Oakland Raiders (‘90-96), including two seasons as the Raiders head coach (‘95-96) where he compiled a 15-17 record. The Lafayette, California native began his tenure with the Raiders as the club's quarterbacks coach from ‘90-92 and coached the offensive line from ‘93-94. The Raiders reached the playoffs in three of those five seasons, including an appearance in the ’91 AFC Championship Game. Prior to joining the Raiders, White took a two-year hiatus from coaching to serve as a consultant to the World League of American Football (now NFL Europe) from ‘88-89.

In total, White owns 16 years of head coaching expertise, including collegiate head coaching posts at the University of Illinois (‘80-87) and the University of California (‘72-77). A two-time National Coach of the Year, White compiled a 47-38-3 record and three bowl appearances in eight years with the Fighting Illini. In ’81 he led Illinois to its first winning record since ’74 with a 7-4 mark. He then took the school to its first bowl appearance in 18 years the following season with a berth in the Liberty Bowl. His ’83 squad was among the best in Illinois history, reaching the Rose Bowl and climbing to a Number 10 final AP ranking with a 10-2 record. The school also set a Big 10 record by becoming the first team ever to defeat all nine conference opponents as White earned Coach of the Year honors following the ’83 campaign.

White began his NFL coaching career with San Francisco, spending two years as offensive line coach and administrative assistant to head coach Bill Walsh with the 49ers from ‘78-79. Prior to joining San Francisco, White spent 20 of his 28 seasons in college football in the state of California. He spent 12 years at his alma mater of the University of California, where he served as head coach from ‘72-77. During that six-year run as the Golden Bears head coach he posted a 35-30-1 record in six seasons at the helm of the Golden Bears. In ’75 he was named Coach of the Year by The Sporting News following an 8-3 season in which Cal won the school’s first Pac 8 championship. White originally launched his coaching career at Cal as a graduate assistant in ’58, was elevated to freshmen coach in ’59 and was a wide receivers coach from ‘60-63.