Louisville has employed Jeff Brohm as its subsequent coach, the college introduced Thursday. Brohm, a local of Louisville who additionally quarterbacked the Cardinals within the Nineteen Nineties, leaves Purdue after six profitable seasons to return to his alma mater. The Louisville board of trustees formally accredited Brohm’s contract in a gathering on Thursday.
Brohm led the Boilermakers to a 36-34 file throughout these six campaigns with a 17-9 mark over the past two seasons and an look within the Huge Ten Championship Sport following the 2022 marketing campaign. Previous to becoming a member of Purdue, he coached Western Kentucky to a 30-10 mark in three years with a sterling 22-5 file throughout the ultimate two.
“We’re excited to welcome Head Coach Jeff Brohm and his household house to the College of Louisville,” stated athletic director Josh Heird. “The Brohms are synonymous with Louisville, and Jeff has made an enduring influence on our metropolis as a highschool star, faculty quarterback, skilled athlete and coach. However past his ties to the town, what excites me most about Jeff is that he is had success on the highest degree of school soccer. To place it merely, Jeff is a confirmed winner. Alongside the way in which, he is accomplished it with an thrilling model of soccer that is still progressive and entertaining, and he is accomplished it by making the best choices with the very best curiosity of his student-athletes on the forefront. I knew we would have liked to determine an incredible chief for our program who understood the historical past of Louisville Soccer, and who can be dedicated long-term to this faculty and this neighborhood. There’s not one other coach in America who checks these containers like Jeff Brohm.”
Along with quarterbacking the Cardinals, Brohm was an assistant at Louisville for six seasons beneath Bobby Petrino and Steve Kragthorpe. He served as quarterbacks coach (2003-06) and assistant head coach (2007-08) with stints as passing sport coordinator (2007) and offensive coordinator (2008) as properly.
A return to Louisville has all the time appeared like an eventuality for Brohm, although he turned down a proposal to teach the Cardinals in November 2018 in favor of staying at Purdue after this system fired Petrino (in his second stint with the workforce). Louisville ultimately employed Scott Satterfield, who left earlier this week after 4 seasons to teach Cincinnati.
“My household and I are honored to return house to the College of Louisville, a spot we love, which has been so influential in shaping me as a participant, a coach and a person,” Brohm stated. “I’m extraordinarily grateful and humbled that Dr. Gonzalez, Dr. Schatzel, Josh Heird and the ULAA Board imagine that I’m the best individual to guide this soccer program. I promise relentless power, effort, and exhausting work each single day on behalf of all our coaches, employees and student-athletes. Our purpose is to compete for championships whereas additionally creating our student-athletes into true leaders on and off the sector. These younger males will make our college, our neighborhood, and our fan base proud to be Louisville Cardinals. This metropolis means an ideal deal to me and my household. Louisville is who we’re. Thanks all for welcoming us again house.”
Brohm is predicted to earn a contract averaging round $6 million over six seasons, in keeping with ESPN. His departure leaves the Boilermakers in quest of a brand new coach as this system comes off its first-ever Huge Ten West title. With Brohm’s departure, the division could have three new coaches for the 2023 season as Matt Rhule take over at Nebraska and Luke Fickell takes over Wisconsin.
A profession overacheiver
After an expert taking part in profession, Brohm had a six-year run as an assistant for the Cardinals earlier than transferring on to teaching staffs at FAU, Illinois and UAB. Then, in 2013, he landed at Western Kentucky as Petrino’s offensive coordinator. When Petrino returned to Louisville after only one season with the Hilltoppers, Brohm obtained the top teaching job and took WKU to new heights. This system’s 12-win season in 2015 and 11-win season in 2016 beneath Brohm nonetheless stand as WKU’s solely seasons with double-digit wins in 14 years as an FBS program.
His fast success earned him the Purdue job at a time when the Boilermakers have been in a pit of despair, limping to a 9-39 mark over the earlier 4 seasons. Brohm took them to a bowl victory in his first season, which shortly earned him consideration from much more high-profile jobs. At one level, he was linked strongly to Tennessee through the Volunteers’ winding 2017 seek for Butch Jones’ substitute. However Brohm stayed put and guided this system to a different bowl look in 2018.
Although the Boilermakers completed simply 6-12 over the 2019 and 2020 seasons, back-to-back 6-3 marks in Huge Ten play over the previous two seasons marked the very best two-year run of convention play for the Boilermakers since 1997 and 1998 when this system completed 6-2 within the Huge Ten in consecutive seasons beneath Joe Tiller.
Brohm’s type matches with Cardinals
The rent continues Louisville’s legacy of offensive-oriented coaches that has made this system a gentle producer of statistically spectacular quarterbacks. Except for Charlie Sturdy’s profitable four-year run from 2010-2013 as a coach with a defensive background, Louisville has employed offensive minds for many of the twenty first century in Petrino, Kragthorpe, and Satterfield.
However even beneath Sturdy, offense turned Louisville’s calling card as Teddy Bridgewater starred for the Cardinals in 2013 throughout a 12-1 season with practically 4,000 yards passing with 31 touchdowns and simply 4 interceptions. Then got here Lamar Jackson throughout Petrino’s second stint. The present Baltimore Ravens star quarterback gained the Heisman Trophy in 2016 earlier than Malik Cunningham entered the image in 2018. Cunningham has been a mainstay on the place for the previous 5 seasons however is out of eligibility.
Meaning Brohm will seemingly be in quest of a quarterback for the 2023 season, and it stands to cause that loads of gamers on the place can be interested in his system. Over the previous two seasons, former walk-on Aidan O’Connell has thrown for greater than 7,000 yards for the Boilermakers, which have been among the many most pass-happy groups within the nation. Purdue ranked second in passing offense within the Huge Ten this season behind solely Ohio State, and the Boilermakers’ 541 move makes an attempt rank fourth within the nation this season.
