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Jeff Brohm has accepted the Louisville head-coaching job and will return to his alma mater,
Brohm, 51, has been the head coach at Purdue the past six seasons and guided the Boilermakers to the Big Ten championship game this season.
Brohm had an outstanding playing career at Louisville, throwing for 5,451 yards, and remains among the school's leaders in touchdown passes (38) and total offense while going 15-10 as a starter
He played eight seasons in the NFL and XFL and was inducted into the Louisville Ring of Honor in 2006.
Brohm, widely regarded as one of the top quarterback coaches in football, served as a Louisville assistant coach from 2003 to 2008 and worked part of that time under Bobby Petrino.
Brohm made other coaching stops at Florida Atlantic, Illinois, UAB and Western Kentucky before becoming the Hilltoppers' head coach in 2014.
He turned down the Louisville job at the end of the 2018 season to stay at Purdue, where he was 36-34 and guided it to the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl against LSU this season.
Brohm replaces Scott Satterfield, who left to take the Cincinnati head coaching job earlier this week. Satterfield went 25-24 with the Cardinals, who play Cincinnati in the Fenway Bowl on Dec. 17.