However, the team stumbled to a 10–20 record and the bottom of the league standings in 1983 and USSF pulled it from the NASL at the end of the year.

Savage returned to the Strikers who sold his contract to the Phoenix Pride of the Major Indoor Soccer League.

[3] In July 1984, the Pride sold Savage's contract to the Baltimore Blast of Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL).

Savage remained with the team through the 1991–1992 season when the MISL folded and the Blast moved to the National Professional Soccer League.

In February 2008, Savage led Gulf Breeze to the FHSAA State Final Four for the fifth time in the school's history.

In the semi-finals the Dolphins defeated top-ranked Meritt Island 1–0 in overtime from a goal by Brad Parrish, marking the first time GBHS has ever played in a state championship game.