Josh White: Football, Movies, Bass, and Family

The Baylor linebacker sat down with David Smoak and Paul Catalina to talk about his life as a student athlete in Waco and much more.

Notes:

• He wakes up every day with a smile because he is healthy enough to play again after tearing his labrum heading into last season. His recovery process helped him improve his mentality.
• Deciding to transfer and having to go through recruiting again was not easy, but he had to do what was best for him. He was looking to be around people he could trust, people who would truly invest in him as a person.
• Through recruiting at LSU, Josh and his family got to know Dave Aranda well and established that trust for Aranda developing Josh into a better person and football player. One way Aranda showed this was how deeply he looks at movies.
• When he's not playing football, he loves fishing and going to the movies. He loved Top Gun: Maverick and enjoys the Marvel movies. The Hulk is his favorite hero/movie.
• Between coach Aranda and players like Terrel Bernard or LSU LBs, Josh sees the vision for fast, effective linebackers like Devin White making the NFL.
• Getting his first offer from Baylor in high school, Josh was super excited and grateful that his hard work paid off. But in college, recruitment got annoying and more business-like. He knew who he wanted to hear from.
• If Aranda had stayed at LSU, Josh said he probably would not have transferred.
• For a team, everybody has to believe in the head coach and his process, Josh said. And the days where you don’t want to get out of bed are the days where you need to push harder to improve.
• His favorite kind of fishing to do is bass fishing. He would always go fishing in little ponds around his hometown where you wouldn’t even think there are fish necessarily. It can be a lot like football: there are times to be patient, and times to be fast/explode.
• Talks with his mom helped him through his injury, which he said was possibly the toughest thing he has had to work through. 
• The Baylor team embraced him as one of their own right away, and the relationships he has developed here have been “second to none”.
• He is super close with his mom, and she is always supporting him and laughing with him. It was just him and his mom when he was growing up, and he is very grateful for how hard she worked to raise him right and support them.
• He wants to be remembered as someone with good character, a good, hard-working person on and off the field.