Mike White, who coached Raiders and multiple college programs, dead at 89

Mike White, the accomplished shot manager who spent clip starring programs successful some assemblage and the NFL with the Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders, has died.

White died successful Newport Beach, California, astatine property 89.

"The Raiders Family is saddened by the passing of Mike White, erstwhile caput manager of the Silver and Black and a long-time NFL and assemblage manager and mentor," the Raiders said successful a statement. "The prayers of the full Raider Nation are with MIke’s household astatine this time."

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Head manager Mike White of the Oakland Raiders looks connected from the sideline arsenic an adjunct manager gestures during a crippled against the Cincinnati Bengals astatine Riverfront Stadium Nov. 5, 1995, successful Cincinnati. (George Gojkovich/Getty Images)

White spent 7 years coaching with the Raiders, 2 arsenic their caput manager from 1995-96. He antecedently served successful a quarterbacks and violative enactment coaching role.

White’s coaching vocation began astatine the ripe property of 22, erstwhile helium joined the Cal Golden Bears arsenic a antiaircraft enactment manager successful 1958 aft being a four-sport jock astatine the schoolhouse successful the 1950s.

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He served successful that relation for six years earlier moving connected to Stanford arsenic its violative coordinator and violative enactment manager from 1964-71.

University of California, Berkeley, entranceway motion connected the country of Oxford Street and Center Street astatine Berkeley, Calif. (iStock)

White’s clip with the Golden Bears wasn’t over, though. He returned to Berkeley to pb them arsenic their caput manager from 1972–77.

White yet broke into the NFL with the San Francisco 49ers successful 1978, wherever helium served arsenic the team’s violative enactment manager for 2 years.

Then, it was backmost to college, this clip starring the Illinois Fighting Illini from 1980-87 arsenic caput coach.

Following his clip with the Raiders, White was an violative adjunct with the St. Louis Rams.

White’s coaching vocation spanned 5 decades, and helium impacted galore coaches and players on the way.

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"Mike was special," Burl Toler Jr., who played for the Golden Bears from 1974-77, said of White. "He treated america similar men and with a batch of respect. Mike was a precise talented and astute manager who loved Cal and loved being a coach, and helium surrounded himself with a batch of similar minds who instilled successful america a volition to succeed."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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