USC targeting Colorado State’s Chad Savage as new TEs/inside WRs coach

LOS ANGELES — Tommy Maher, easily, could have landed comfortably in the FCS. The offers awaited this past recruiting cycle, even in the absence of an FBS scholarship, for a 5-foot-8 receiver who had authored a quietly standout season at national power St. John Bosco.

And yet somehow, without anything more to offer other than a walk-on spot, Chad Savage convinced Maher to come to Colorado State. The messaging was simple, as St. John Bosco head coach Jason Negro recalled: come in here, you’ll have a shot.