Football
- Title:
- Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks
- Email:
- bbrohm@GoCards.com
One of the top developers of quarterback talent in the nation, Brian Brohm returned to his alma mater in 2023 to mentor the quarterback position.
In two seasons as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Brohm has mentored a pair of quarterbacks who have thrown for over 3,000 yards and over 20 touchdowns. Tyler Shough passed for 3,195 yards and 23 touchdowns in his lone year with the Cardinals. Brohm saw his quarterback complete 67.2 percent of his throws and toss just six interceptions on 389 pass attempts.
As the quarterbacks coach, Brohm tutored Jack Plummer to an all-conference season where he picked up third team honors after throwing for 3,204 yards and 21 touchdowns, while completing a solid 64.8 percent of his passes.
As the offensive coordinator in 2024, Brohm directed an offense that averaged 36.5 points per game and was the only team in the country to score at least 24 points in each game. The explosive offense averaged 449.2 yards per game, which ranked 13th nationally and averaged 6.85 yards per play.Â
Under Brohm, the passing game was one of the best in the country, averaging 264.1 yards per game and averaged nearly 13.0 yards a completion.Â
In his return to Louisville in 2023, Brohm oversaw an offense that averaged 30.7 points per game and 415.7 yards of total offense. The offense tallied eight games of tallying more than 30 points and over 400 yards of offense, including a season high 690 yards in a win over Murray State.
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Brohm spent six seasons as the co-offensive coordinator and quarterback coach at Purdue, where the Boilermakers improved greatly under his leadership.Â
Under Brohm’s tutelage, the offense tallied six games of scoring more than 30 points and threw for 3,903 yards and 26 touchdowns in finishing with an 8-6 mark, which included the school’s first Big Ten West title. Purdue’s passing game broke several school records during a remarkable 2021 campaign that featured a 9-4 record, two Top 5 victories and a win in the TransPerfect Music City Bowl.
With Brohm serving as co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Purdue threw for 4,620 yards to eclipse the old school record of 4,208 set in 1998. That amounted to 355.4 passing yards per game, a program best that surpassed the 1985 mark of 341.6 yards per game. Nationally, Purdue’s passing offense ranked fifth.
During the 2021 campaign, the offense also set school records for completions (407), completion percentage (.708) and passing first downs (221). Under Brohm’s mentorship, Aidan O’Connell turned into a record-setting quarterback. He completed 71.8 percent of his passes to set a new individual school record, while throwing for 3,712 yards and 28 touchdowns.
The Second Team All-Big Ten QB produced six 300-yard passing games including a pair of 500-yard games, becoming the first Purdue quarterback to throw for 500 yards multiple times in a season. O’Connell racked up a career-high 536 passing yards in a win over No. 3 Michigan State before ending with 534 yards in the Music City Bowl victory over Tennessee. Â
In 2020, O’Connell and Plummer teamed up to complete 176 of 260 passing attempts (67.7 percent) for 1,854 yards and 15 touchdowns against only four interceptions in six games. The Boilermakers averaged a Big Ten-best 309.0 yards passing per game.
In 2018, Brohm mentored David Blough to his finest season as Purdue’s signal-caller. Blough completed 305 of 462 passing attempts for 3,705 yards with 25 touchdowns. His .660 completion percentage set a single-season school record, while his passing yards and touchdown totals ranked fifth. Brohm helped guide the Boilermakers to an average of 443.9 total yards per game, the sixth-highest in school history.Â
Brohm coached Blough and Sindelar to a combined 3,202 passing yards and 27 touchdowns in his first season at Purdue. The Boilermaker signal-callers completed nearly 60 percent of their passes while cutting their interceptions from 25 in 2016 to merely 11 in 2017.
Brohm came to Purdue from Western Kentucky, where he was co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2016. He guided an offense that averaged 45.5 points, 336.8 passing yards and 523.1 total yards per game. WKU won its final eight games, with a 58-44 victory over Louisiana Tech in the Conference USA Championship and a 51-31 win over Memphis in the Boca Raton Bowl, to finish 11-3 overall.
Prior to joining the WKU staff, Brohm played professionally for eight seasons with the Green Bay Packers (2008-09) and Buffalo Bills (2009-10) in the National Football League, the Las Vegas Locomotives (2011-12) in the United Football League, as well as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (2013) and Winnipeg Blue Bombers (2014-15) in the Canadian Football League. He was a second-round pick (No. 56 overall) by the Packers in the 2008 NFL Draft.
Known as one of the top quarterbacks in school history, Brohm returns to his alma mater where he starred from 2004 to 2007, and he still ranks among the Cardinals’ career leaders in passing attempts (second, 1,185), passing yards (second, 10,775), passing efficiency (second, 157.92), completions (third, 780), completion percentage (third, .658), total offense (fourth, 10,819) and touchdown passes (fourth, 71).
Brohm guided the 2006 Cardinals to a school best 12-1 record, including a 24-13 victory over Wake Forest in the Orange Bowl, and a No. 6 national ranking in the final AP poll. He was named the Orange Bowl MVP after completing 24 of 34 passes for 311 yards against the Demon Deacons. His 30 touchdown passes in 2007 are tied for second in school history with Lamar Jackson. Brohm set school records with 45 completions and 65 passing attempts against Syracuse on Sept. 22, 2007, while his 555 passing yards against the Orange ranks second all-time.
Brohm led Louisville Trinity High School to three Kentucky Class 4A state championships (2001, 2002 and 2003) and was named MVP of all three title games, including a 555-yard, seven-touchdown performance in the 2002 contest. In 2003, he was named Kentucky’s Mr. Football, USA Today’s Offensive Player of the Year and Gatorade Player of the Year. Brohm graduated from Louisville in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.Â
Brohm married the former Ashley Krawczyk in 20214. The couple has two children, Weston and Stella.
