LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The University of Louisville didn’t just want native son Jeff Brohm to return home and be the Cardinals’ football coach, it needed Jeff Brohm to return home and the be the Cardinals’ football coach.
And Thursday, inside the packed Angel’s Envy Bourbon Club at U of L’s Cardinal Stadium, which included more than few members of the extended Brohm family, that is exactly what happened as the 51-year-old coach officially left his post at Purdue and returned to his hometown to take over his alma mater’s football program.
With the Louisville fan base having soured on Scott Satterfield’s football program after four seasons, and with its men’s basketball team off to a horrendous start, Brohm’s return is a stroke of timely good fortune.