Jeff Brohm shares how Louisville can bounce back on short week after Miami loss

After a shootout loss on Saturday, Louisville didn’t even have a full seven days before they’ll play again tonight at Boston College.

With that, Jeff Brohm knows the Cardinals have to turn themselves around quickly. However, before they do, he wants them to also reflect on the feeling they have had after their seven-point loss to No. 6 Miami.

“Well, we want it to sting. We want to taste the wound and we want to really despite the taste because it’s a really awful taste,” Brohm said postgame on Saturday after the 52-45 loss to the Hurricanes.

That defeat dropped Louisville to 4-3 overall this season. All three of those losses have been in their past four games over the last month after a 3-0 start. Two were against Top-20 opponents but two were also at home and against conference competition in the ACC.

Now, the Cardinals will be in Chestnut Hill and try to avoid a fourth loss out of five. To do so, it’ll take a one-game mindset that ignores everything else but tonight. It’ll also take a team effort by every player for them that’s on the field at a given time.

“The thing I will say is our guys do care. They work hard. They want to win. It just hasn’t happened,” said Brohm. “So, you know, with that said, we preach all year long. It’s a one-game season, whether you’re 7-0 or 4-3 or whatever it is, 1-6. You’ve got to come back the next week and play one game the best you can. So, if you can’t concentrate and do that and you’re not tough enough to withstand the adversity along the way and the highs along the way? Then you’re not going to be a good football player.”

“You know, we told them this is a team sport. Doesn’t matter how good one player plays. All 11 on the field have to do it at the same time,” Brohm continued. “When that doesn’t happen, you will not win, not matter how good one players plays.”

Losing to BC would put Louisville at .500. It would also match the loss total from all of last season during Brohm’s debut. That left it to each one of them, even on this short week, to prepare to keep off another one against the Eagles to end the month of October.

“I just think we all have to, you know, buckle down, grind this thing out, and find ways to improve,” said Brohm.