Sources: Louisville finalizing hire of ex-QB Brohm

Jeff Brohm is going backmost home, arsenic helium and Louisville are finalizing a woody to marque him the Cardinals' adjacent caput shot coach, sources told ESPN connected Wednesday.

The declaration is expected to beryllium for six years and successful the $35 cardinal range, sources told ESPN. An authoritative instauration is expected for Thursday, sources said.

Brohm has been the caput manager astatine Purdue the past six seasons and guided the Boilermakers to the Big Ten title crippled this season.

Purdue has scheduled a squad gathering for 1 p.m. ET to archer them the news, sources confirmed to ESPN.

He had an outstanding playing vocation astatine Louisville and remains among the school's leaders successful touchdown passes and full offense. He was inducted into the Louisville Ring of Honor successful 2006.

Brohm, wide regarded arsenic 1 of the apical backmost coaches successful football, served arsenic a Louisville adjunct manager from 2003 to 2008 and worked portion of that clip nether Bobby Petrino. Brohm made different coaching stops astatine Florida Atlantic, Illinois, UAB and Western Kentucky earlier becoming the Hilltoppers' caput manager successful 2014.

From Louisville, Kentucky, Brohm was a standout backmost astatine Trinity High School. He turned down the Louisville occupation astatine the extremity of the 2018 play to enactment astatine Purdue, wherever helium was 36-34 overall.

Brohm replaces Scott Satterfield, who near to instrumentality the Cincinnati caput coaching occupation earlier this week.