Chad Savage, a Reno High alum who began his FBS coaching career at Nevada, is expected to be hired by USC. Savage, who is currently at Colorado State, would be the Trojans’ tight ends and inside receivers coach.
The 30-year-old Reno native made his full-time FBS assistant-coaching debut at Nevada in 2021 as the Wolf Pack’s tight ends coach. He moved with Jay Norvell to Colorado State in 2022 and has been with the Rams the last three seasons.
Before that, Savage was an undergraduate assistant at San Diego from 2015-17 and graduate assistant at Nevada from 2018-19. He was San Diego’s wide receivers coach in 2020 at the FCS level…