Three days after ex-head coach Jay Norvell departed to in-conference foe Colorado State, the Nevada Wolf Pack are “closing in” on hiring current Oregon co-defensive coordinator Ken Wilson as their next head coach, Football Scoop reported Thursday.
Wilson had two stints — 19 years in total — as a Wolf Pack defensive assistant (1989-1998; 2004-12). While at Nevada, he coached the defensive line, linebackers and safeties, as well as spending four seasons as the defensive coordinator (1996-98, 2007) and five as the associate head coach (2008-12).
Wilson was Oregon’s co-defensive coordinator — along with former Fresno State head coach Tim DeRuyter — in 2021, as well coaching the team’s inside linebackers after serving as just its linebackers coach in 2019-20.