Florida has hired Mississippi State’s Nick Savage as director of football strength and conditioning, the school announced in a release on Monday.
Savage had previously served as Mississippi State’s head strength coach for the last two seasons.
Just 28, Savage has made something of a meteoric rise in the ranks of strength coaches by entering the Urban Meyer-Dan Mullen orbit: He began 2013 as a strength intern at Bowling Green — Meyer’s alma mater and the school where he first worked as a head coach — and ended it as a strength intern at Ohio State under legendary strength coach Mickey Marotti, who has been at Meyer’s side off and on for three decades.