Richard White served as the softball coach at Dadeville in 1998-99. White got his first head football coaching job in 2000 at Dadeville High School.

Whites 2007 team finished 0-10 but rebounded the next season with a perfect 10-0 regular season record. The veteran coach switched to the Tony Franklin spread offense and made the biggest turnaround a coach can possibly make. That team finished with an 11-1 record.

Beginning in 2008 his Tigers reeled off six consecutive ten win seasons. All but two of his sixteen teams have reached the playoffs.

Entering the 2019 season, the Dadeville Tigers are 135-82 under his direction in 19 seasons.