Mike White is an American football coach. He has 16 years experience as a head coach, including stints at the University of California (1972-1977), the University of Illinois (1980-1987) and the Oakland Raiders (1995-1996).
During his successful college coaching career, White was twice named National Coach of the Year, first in 1975 where he coached a team led by Joe Roth, Chuck Muncie and Wesley Walker to the Pac-8 co-championship.
White moved to the University of Illinois in 1980. White succeeded Gary Moeller, who in three seasons at Illinois would finish no higher than 8th in the Big Ten. White quickly turned around the Illinois football program, posting a winning season in only his second year. In 1982, Illinois went to the Liberty Bowl, the school's first bowl appearance since the 1964 Rose Bowl. The 1982 Liberty Bowl was also notable as the final game coached by University of Alabama head coach Bear Bryant. In 1983, Illinois won the Big Ten title with an overall record of 10-1, including a 9-0 conference record, and played in the 1984 Rose Bowl. White was honored for his team's achievements by being named UPI Coach of the Year. The 1983 Illinois team is the only team in Big Ten history to beat each of the other conference teams in a single season, (an achievement made possible by the fact that rarely in conference history have teams played all the other teams in a season.) White would also lead the Fighting Illini to the 1985 Peach Bowl. In eight seasons at Illinois, White's teams had a combined record of 47-41-3, for a winning percentage of .533. Along the way, White coached future NFL quarterbacks Dave Wilson, Tony Eason, and Jack Trudeau, and record-setting wide receiver David Williams.
His years as the head coach of the Oakland Raiders are best recalled for the team's collapse in the 1995 season, when the 8-2 Raiders went into a nosedive, losing their final 6 games to finish 8-8 and out of the playoffs.
As of 2005, White is in his fifth season with the Kansas City Chiefs as the club’s Director of Football Administration.
He is also a member of The Delta Upsilon Fraternity.
During the summers of 2006 and 2007, White served as Camp Blue's manager at the Lair of the Golden Bear, a family camp run by the California Alumni Association.
Mike White is an animator who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Born & raised in the surrounding area of Metro Toronto, Mike has been working in television broadcast animation since 2003. In 2006 he founded his own animation production company, MW&F Productions, and is currently working on developing the comic book Thieves & Kings into an animated television series as well as directing animation on Delilah and Julius for Collideascope Digital Productions.
Selected credits list includes:
- Animation Director on Delilah and Julius Season 2 for his current employer Collideascope Digital Productions. Broadcast on Teletoon in Canada and distributed worldwide by Decode Entertainment.
- Director & Producer of MSTRKRFT's animated music video "Work on You" for Last Gang Records/DKD Entertainment group and is broadcast on MuchMusic & MTV.
- Assistant Supervisor & Animator on Johnny Test Season 2 for Collideascope Digital Productions/Cookie Jar Productions & Warner Bros..
Other credits include design assistance on CBC Television's Secret World of OG, and posing animator for Family Channel's series King.
Mike White (born December 18, 1938 in Detroit, Michigan) was an outfielder in Major League Baseball.
Often serves as judge at Baltimore's MicroCineFest.
Has worked in the Elvis Impersonator's Hall of Fame.
Son of Mel White (I).
He got his first impulse toward writing scripts from his favorite teacher in second grade, the mother of playwright Sam Shepard.
Isn't a fan of classic rock music. He wrote School of Rock, The (2003) specifically so Jack Black (I) could perform his own favorite rock music.
Is vegan.
