Jeff Brohm

Jeffrey Scott Brohm (born April 24, 1971) is an American football coach and former quarterback.

He is the head football coach at his alma mater, the University of Louisville, a position he has held since the 2023 season.

Brohm was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1971.

He is the son of Donna and Oscar Brohm.

Brohm and his siblings Greg, Kimberly, and Brian were born in Louisville while his father was an assistant football coach at Trinity High School in Louisville.

Brohm was a standout high school player at Trinity High School in Louisville.

He was named the "Kentucky High School Player of the Decade" for the 1980s and won the Kentucky "Mr. Football" Award in 1988 while leading his team to a state championship and undefeated season.

Brohm played college football for the Louisville Cardinals under coach Howard Schnellenberger from 1989 to 1993.

After graduation from high school, he was selected by the Montreal Expos in the seventh round of the 1989 MLB Draft, but he instead decided to pursue playing football and baseball at the University of Louisville.

After spending his freshman season as a backup quarterback, he was once again selected in the MLB Draft, this time in the fourth round by the Cleveland Indians.

This time Brohm had a change of heart and decided to pursue a professional baseball career in the summers when he wasn't playing football.

After two summers, he decided to drop baseball and focus solely on football.

In February 1989, Brohm committed to play football for Howard Schnellenberger's Louisville Cardinals football team.

Brohm played in every game, but was relegated to backing up Browning Nagle.

The 1990 Cardinals ended the season 10–1–1 in the 1991 Fiesta Bowl.

Brohm played for two series during the Fiesta Bowl, but on his first series he was intercepted.

He was intercepted again on his second series by Charles Garner who returned it 49-yards for a touchdown.

After Nagle graduated, Brohm became the starting quarterback for the 1991 team.

Just two games into the season, Brohm and the Cardinals were facing the Tennessee Volunteers, when Brohm suffered a fracture in his right ankle, placing him in a cast for six weeks.

Brohm returned from his ankle injury to regain his starting quarterback role.

In his first game back, Brohm was a two-point conversion away from knocking off #17 Ohio State as Brohm's pressured pass floated just past the arms of Ralph Dawkins.

As starting quarterback for two seasons, he led the Cardinals to the 1993 Liberty Bowl.

He played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons from 1994 to 2000 and the XFL in 2001.

Brohm went undrafted in the 1994 NFL Draft.

He played seven years as a quarterback in the NFL, with the San Diego Chargers in 1994, the Washington Redskins in 1995, the San Francisco 49ers from 1995 to 1997, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1998, the Denver Broncos in 1999 and the Cleveland Browns in 2000.

He also played one season with the Orlando Rage of the XFL, where he was named to the All-XFL team despite having his season end early with a shoulder injury.

In 2002, Brohm moved to the AF2 where he became the head coach of the Louisville Fire.

Brohm returned to the University of Louisville in 2003 to work under Bobby Petrino.

He spent the next six years as a quarterback coach, passing game coordinator, offensive coordinator, and assistant head coach for the Cardinals and helped them win the 2007 Orange Bowl.

In 2009, Brohm went to Florida Atlantic University, where he was reunited with Schnellenberger as offensive coordinator.

Brohm then went on to coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2010 to 2011, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2012, and reuniting with Petrino at Western Kentucky University in 2013 as an associate head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.

Brohm served as the head football coach at Western Kentucky University from 2014 to 2016 and Purdue University from 2017 to 2022.

Brohm was born in Louisville, Kentucky.

His father, Oscar, was a quarterback for Louisville and a high school football coach in Louisville.

He attended Trinity High School in Louisville, Kentucky.

When Petrino returned to Louisville in 2014, Brohm was promoted to head coach of the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.

As head coach, he led the team to three bowl games, winning two of them.

Brohm was inducted as a member of the 2014 Kentucky High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame class.

In 2016, Brohm took the head coaching position at Purdue University.

Brohm returned to Louisville as head coach in December 2022.