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| Date of birth | April 24 1971 |
| Place of birth | Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight | 205 pounds (93 kg) |
| Current status: | Active |
| Purdue Boilermakers — No. | |
| Position | Head coach |
| College | Louisville |
| High school | Louisville (KY) Trinity |
| Undrated in | 1994 |
| Notable career highlights | * 2× C-USA Championship (2015, 2016)
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| Career coaching record | 43–24 (college) 2–14 (AF2) |
| Career player statistics (if any) | |
| TD–INT | 1–1 |
| Passing yards | 353 |
| Passer rating | 79.2 |
| Stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
| Team(s) as a player (if any) | |
| 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2001 |
San Diego Chargers Washington Redskins San Francisco 49ers Tampa Bay Buccaneers Denver Broncos Cleveland Browns Orlando Rage |
| Team(s) as a coach/administrator (if any) | |
| 2002 2003–2006 2007 2008 2009 2010–2011 2012 2013 2014–2016 2017–present |
Louisville Fire Louisville (QB) Louisville (AHC/PGC) Louisville (AHC/OC) Florida Atlantic (QB) Illinois (QB) UAB (OC/QB) Western Kentucky (AHC/OC/QB) Western Kentucky Purdue |
Jeffrey Scott ""Jeff" Brohm (born April 24, 1971) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, promoted from offensive coordinator after Bobby Petrino left to become the head coach for the Louisville Cardinals. Prior to this, Brohm served as offensive coordinator at UAB and Louisville. Brohm is also a former professional baseball and football player, the latter with the San Francisco 49ers.
Athletic career[]
Playing career[]
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Jeff's father, Oscar Brohm, was a quarterback for Louisville and a high school football coach in Louisville. He attended Trinity High School in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduation from high school, he was selected by the Montreal Expos in the seventh round of the 1989 MLB Draft,[1] but he instead decided to pursue playing football and baseball at the University of Louisville.[2] 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.[3][4]
As starting quarterback for two seasons, he led the Cardinals to the 1993 Liberty Bowl.
Brohm went undrafted in the 1994 NFL Draft before signing with the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent;[4] Jeff would play seven years as a quarterback in the NFL, with the 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.
Coaching[]
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. 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, serving as an assistant for the Illini from 2010 to 2011, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2012, and at Western Kentucky University in 2013 as an associate head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. When Petrino returned to Louisville in 2014, Brohm was promoted to head coach of Hilltoppers. As head coach, he led the team to three bowl games, winning two of them. In 2016, Jeff Brohm took the head coaching position at Purdue University,[4] where he took the Boilermakers to a 7-6 record in his first season.
Personal Life[]
Brohm is the older brother of quarterback Brian Brohm.
References[]
- ↑ Lucas Aulbach (October 15, 2013). Kentucky's Finest: Jeff Brohm is a Bluegrass football legend. wkuherald.com. College Heights Herald. Retrieved on December 2, 2016.
- ↑ "Brohm might try pro baseball while at U of L", May 31, 1990. Retrieved on December 2, 2016.
- ↑ "Injury puts Brohm's baseball try on hold", June 30, 1992. Retrieved on December 2, 2016.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Steve Springer (January 26, 1995). Players It's Third for These Longshots : Musgrave, Brohm Are Unlikeliest of Super Bowl Quarterbacks, but They Can Dream. www.latimes.com. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on January 16, 2017.
External links[]
- Jeff Brohm article at Wikipedia
