Nearly 30 years since she became what is believed to be D-I's first female football coach, Carol White’s impact on the sport remains hidden beneath the surface. 'She was encyclopedic,' former Georgia Tech head coach Bill Curry said. 'I was stunned.'
He told White he wouldn’t have brought her in for the interview if he didn’t already know she knew kicking and the physics behind it. He did not need to hear about her special teams background or the way her brain worked, though he would soon find out she was something of a human computer for the game’s third phase, calculating the speed and trajectory not just of a kicked football but of the players on the field providing coverage, too.
“I learned later that there were probably 100 people who wanted that job,” White told The Athletic in a recent interview. “It wasn’t promised to me. It was their choice about what could make the team better. It was about my ability to take in large amounts of detail and digest it quickly, and in the presence of famous people, I just say what I’m thinking. I’m a New Englander, not a Southern belle. If you want to ask me a question, I’m going to give you a very truthful answer.
White passed Curry’s test. She was hired and assigned to the kickers, punters and long snappers, a position she held for two seasons before Curry left for Alabama.
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