Brad White
Sounds like it is going to be a lot of fun having Liam Coen and Brad White, both Rhode Island natives, as coordinators for Mark Stoops next season. Coen has been with the Los Angeles Rams but knows about White, who played at Bishop Hendricken High School, a rival high school to Coen’s LaSalle Academy in Providence, R.I.
Coen told the Berkshire Eagle he thought there were only three or four coaches from Rhode Island in the NFL or college football. Now two of them will be coordinators at the same SEC school.
“Actually it’s pretty funny. Brad and I don’t really know each other personally. I remember what jersey numbers Brad White wore (in high school). I think I was an eighth grader when he was a senior at Bishop Hendricken. I just always respected him as a player,” Coen told the Rhode Island newspaper.
White says the two of them are a bit alike. Both coached in college before going to the NFL and then coming back to college.
“It’s not like he never coached at this level. Not much needed in that regard. Just letting him know we are excited to have him and make sure he knows his high school school was second to mine (in Rhode Island),” White said when asked what advice he might give Coen.
