Jeff Brohm opens up on being back at Louisville, reveals the next step for this team

Nobody told Jeff Brohm you can’t go back. The Louisville head coach’s homecoming has gotten off to the best possible start as the Cardinals are 5-0 heading into this weekend’s game versus Notre Dame.

Brohm was born in Louisville in 1971, playing high school football in Louisville and then played quarterback at Louisville. After his professional playing career, he started as a coach for the Louisville Fire, an af2 team in the Arena Football League’s developmental league.

Brohmn was on Tuesday’s episode of Andy Staples’ podcast and talked about how great it has been being back in a place that has meant so much to him.

“It’s been enjoyable to be back and be around all the people that you know or group grew up with or went to school with that are really good people,” Brohm said. “They just want to see the program do well. Of course, when you’re winning, it’s a lot more fun. But I’ve played and coached long enough now that I’m battle tested. We’ve experienced things. You’d like to have some answers in your back pockets when things come up to help your team win. I think that’s been beneficial for us.”

Louisville’s 5-0 start is from from a fluke, either. The Cardinals have played four Power Five teams in their first five games, including two on the road and one technically at a neutral site.

They opened the year with a close victory over Georgia Tech at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. After blowing out Murray State in Week 2, they’ve defeated Indiana, Boston College and NC State.

While their start has been perfect, the road gets much more difficult starting this weekend. After the Fighting Irish, Louisville has Pitt, a bye week and Duke this month.

“I do think our schedule will continue to get tougher and tougher,” Brohm said. “We have some tough ball games ahead of us and that’ll kind of really test exactly where we’re at. We’ve got to make improvement. We’ve still got a long ways to go. Our guys work hard so they give us everything they have. As coaches we got to continue to push the envelope and make sure that we’re ready to go because we want to keep this thing going and it’s not easy to win every week.

“Like I said before, fortunately half the team’s win and lose so you got to figure out a way to be one of those teams that wins every week. It’s not easy. So it requires work and time and effort and you got to be really just sharp as far as coaches and players in order to gain a little bit of an edge to find a way to win.”