Doyel: Two jobs, one Stephanie White. No problem.

She has two iPhones now, the white one with the red cover she’s had as coach of the Indiana Fever, and the black one she’s had since becoming coach at Vanderbilt also. The white phone is set to vibrate, as always. The black one, the new one? That phone rings. And it rings a lot.

Two jobs, two phones. One Stephanie White.

It could be stressful. It could be impossible. It is not, not for her, because this is Stephanie White. And she’s been doing this sort of thing since college.

That’s a story you might not know. Other parts, yes, you know. Stephanie White became the state’s all-time girls scoring leader at Seeger High, where she won IndyStar Indiana Miss Basketball in 1995. She went to Purdue. Academic All-American, national player of the year, 1999 national champion. Went to the WNBA. Played for the Fever. Came back as Fever coach.

Her coach at Purdue, Carolyn Peck, once described the state of Indiana in these terms:

“It’s God, Stephanie White and Bobby Knight,” Peck said. “In that order.”

You know most of that stuff, maybe all of it. But how about this: White’s first coaching job was an AAU team. She led that under-18 team to the state championship game and the national tournament in Spokane, Wash.

During her freshman year at Purdue.

“Time management,” White was telling me Sunday night outside the Fever locker room. “I’ve always been able to multitask.”

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Fever President Kelly Krauskopf could have fired White. Another president might have done it, but not this president. And not that coach. Krauskopf has been president of the Fever since the team was created, and in 1999 she swung her first trade to acquire a player:

Stephanie White.

So when White came to her before this season began and said Vanderbilt was interested — and when White came to her a few weeks later and said she was taking the Vandy job, smack dab in the middle of the season — Krauskopf never considered making a change. She wasn’t happy, don’t get it twisted, but she wasn’t worried that the Fever’s 2016 season would be compromised.

Fever's White accepts job at Vanderbilt

“I could’ve hired an interim (coach), but here’s the thing I know about Stephanie, and I’ve known her since she was 23 years old,” Krauskopf was telling me. “She’s such a competitor and perfectionist, she’ll do everything she can to make sure the Indiana Fever has the best 2016 season we can have. I know who she is.”

That’s how she felt on May 25 when White showed up in Nashville, Tenn., flashing the Vanderbilt sign and being introduced as coach. How does Kelly Krauskopf feel about it now?

“I haven’t seen one change,” she says. “I haven’t seen one thing that’s different to the way Stephanie’s approaching practice, the way she’s approaching the team.”

Now Krauskopf laughs.

“She’s ripping into them,” Krauskopf tells me, “just as she does.”

But Stephanie’s on her way out, I tell Krauskopf. Does the team still listen?

“Oh absolutely,” Krauskopf says. “They see her, they see there’s no letup. This is about now. She’s fully invested here.”

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This sort of thing, it requires sacrifice. Stephanie White won’t sacrifice Vanderbilt, and she damn sure won’t sacrifice her current — her final — Fever team. So for now she will sacrifice her personal life.

White studies film on an iPad while she works the treadmill every morning, before her three young kids wake up. She makes recruiting calls for Vanderbilt from the hotel when the Fever are on the road. She calls her staff at Vandy on her drive into work.

Something has to give, I tell her. What does?

“Probably my relationship with my wife,” she says, laughing in an unfunny way. This is temporary, but this is not fun. “I get up early before they’re awake and do my workout. I’ll go home and have some time with the kids, and I’ll be all-in while I’m there and we’ll have dinner and they’ll go to bed. And then I’ll dig into phone calls or scouting or whatever else needs to be done.”

Something always does. She already has hired her Vandy assistants and is working on adding a strength-and-conditioning coach. When Vanderbilt introduced White as coach, it also introduced her associate coach: Carolyn Peck. The presence of someone like Peck, from day one, was mandatory — for both sides.

“We both needed that, so I could be fully invested here,” White says. “(Vanderbilt) knew it was a priority to me, to be fully invested in the Fever. And they needed to know who that person was going to be who was fully invested in them. It needed to be somebody we both could trust, had been there before and was capable of filling that void.”

Peck was perfect. Not just White’s former coach, not just a national title-winning coach — but a former Vanderbilt basketball star, a member of the school’s athletic hall of fame.

“She’s really the interim,” White says of Peck.

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Peck and other Vandy assistants were in Indianapolis to watch White coach the Fever on Friday night and also in practice Saturday. Freshmen reported to Vanderbilt last week. During NCAA-mandated workouts, Peck and company  will put the players through Stephanie White-mandated drills.

That’s one way White coaches that team while still coaching this one. Another?

"Stephanie's staff keeps her informed of everything that happens," says Vanderbilt women’s basketball SID David Dawson. "And in this age of technology, she can watch everything  — either live or taped. There is no doubt her fingerprints are on everything we are doing."

Says White: “We’re one man down, because I’m here. That’s why the staff was up here to watch workouts and see the things we do and take it back there. Now they run the ship. The ball’s in their court, and they’re out there doing it.”

White makes it sound easy. It is not, but White tends to make basketball look easy. She has doubled as a TV analyst — for multiple networks — while coaching the Fever, and is one of the best analysts there is. She emceed the IndyStar Indiana Sports Awards show in April, and was sensational. She is good at everything she does. This is what I tell her.

“Not true,” she says. “Lots of stuff I’m bad at.”

But if you’re not good at it, I say, you don’t do that stuff.

“True,” she concedes.

Remember what Carolyn Peck said years ago about the three pillars of the Hoosier state: God, Stephanie White and Bob Knight. And hear what Fever President Kelly Krauskopf says about White now:

“Grew up here, Miss Indiana Basketball, wins the national championship at Purdue,” is how Krauskopf starts, and she keeps going. “The WNBA gets going, she comes back here as a player, and now she’s our head coach. It’s like a Lifetime movie or something.”

But she’s leaving the Fever for Vanderbilt, I unnecessarily remind the Fever president. That’s not how a Lifetime movie ends.

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“Look, I’m not going to lie to you,” Krauskopf says. “I want her to stay. It’s not my first choice.”

Stephanie White would stay, if she could be two places at once. This is what I know. And that’s what I tell Krauskopf.

Krauskopf smiles wanly. That’s a fairy tale. And we’re too old for fairy tales.

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