"An Exceptional Coach" tells the story of a legendary high school football coach in the state of Alabama and nationally. Kirby Williams has won 8 state championships in 11 years and three USA Today National Championships. Williams is offered the opportunity to build a first year college program into a national contender in the upcoming years. This is his journey in the college game at Western Alabama University, where he endeavors to build a program from the ground floor  into a championship program while facing many road blocks along the way. This is the story of his exceptional journey.

After pushback from some powerful boosters, Western Alabama University President Charles Conners calls on Atwater High School Football Coach Kirby Williams, an eight time state champion and three time USA Today National Champion and leader of the premier program in the country, to ignite a brand new program at Western. Williams interviews for the job, is hired, and must navigate the challenges in pursuing his dream of winning national championships in college football. He faces and must try to endure challenges from a corrupt alumnus and his equally, if not more, corrupt colleague, personal attacks on his character, community tragedies, and, just as importantly, winning over his team. But he is relentless in his pursuit of excellence for his football program on the field and in life. This is the story of this exceptional journey of an exceptional leader.

David White attended Episcopal High School in Virginia and graduated in 1980. He then attended Vanderbilt University where he graduated from in 1984 with a B.A. in History. He started his sports writing career at Bama Magazine in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1986. He then worked for Carolina Blue Newspaper, a weekly sports publication in which he wrote 8 to 10 features a week and game stories on North Carolina Football and Basketball. After that, he worked for the Durham Morning Herald beginning in the latter half of 1989. In 1990, he returned to Birmingham, AL. and worked for the Birmingham News, the Birmingham Post-Herald and the Over the Mountain Journal, respectively, until 2010. He then started writing a blog after publishing three books. He spends many hours on his blog and has published four books: Leadership Lessons for Life, in 2004: Shorty: A Life in Sports, in 2007: A Man of Character, in 2009: and A Stroke of Genius, in 2010. His first two pieces were non-fiction and his most recent two were fictional. White lives with his wife, Beth, in Birmingham. White is 62 years old and is passionate about his profession.