University of Louisville Football

Head Coach - 13th season 4th season at Louisville (28-12), 16-8 ACC Record 13th Season Overall: 94-56, 61-38 Conference Bowl Record: 7-2 Coaching Honors Second coach in school history to win nine or more games in three-straight seasons. One of 14 Semifinalists for George Munger College Coach of the Year Award Team Accomplishments Guided Louisville to its first appearance in the ACC Title Game - 2023 Led Purdue to school's first Big Ten West Division title - 2022 9 Bowl Game Appearances - 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 Player Honors 22 First Team All-Conference Selections 99 All-Conference Selections 2 Freshmen of the Year 2 Consensus All-Americans 16 NFL Draft Picks Milestone Wins 1 – Aug. 29, 2014 vs. Bowling Green (59-31) 25 – Oct. 22, 2016 vs. Old Dominion (59-24) 50 – Oct. 31, 2020 at Illinois (31-24) 75– Nov. 4, 2023 vs. Virginia Tech (34-3) Jeff Brohm — a former letterwinner and alumnus — enters his fourth season as head football coach at the University of Louisville, quickly rebuilding the Cardinals into a postseason contender. Louisville has posted back-to-back nine-win seasons for the first time since 2014, reinforcing Brohm’s reputation as one of the nation’s most innovative offensive minds. Brohm was named Louisville’s 24th full-time head coach on Dec. 8, 2022. He has guided the program to a 28-12 overall record, highlighted by four wins over Top 25 opponents, a 24-21 win at No. 2 Miami in 2025, a dramatic 35-34 victory over Washington i

Adam Mueller was elevated to a defensive assistant position in charge of the linebackers in February 2026. Before being elevated to his current role, Mueller spent three seasons as a quality control coach on the defensive side of the football. Prior to joining the UofL staff, Mueller served as a defensive graduate assistant at Purdue for two seasons. Before his stop in West Lafayette, Mueller was the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio from 2019-21. During his first season at the helm of the defense, the Storm saw notable improvements in all major categories while finishing first in the GMAC in pass yards allowed per game and 11th nationally in red zone defense. Mueller also coached the defensive line and worked as the director of football operations at Morehead State for the 2018 season after working as the assistant defensive line coach at Morehead during the 2015 season Between stints with the Eagles, Mueller was a defensive graduate assistant at Boston College from 2016-18, helping guide their defense to a stellar 2016 season in which they finished ninth nationally in total defense and second in total sacks. Mueller graduated from Purdue with a master's degree in the spring of 2023 after also earning a master's in leadership and administration from Boston College in 2019. He earned his bachelor's degree in history and communications at Connecticut in 2014, where he was also a three-year letter-winner on the Huskies' footba

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Brandon Sharp was promoted to a defensive assistant position in charge of the safeties in February 2026. Before being elevated, Sharp spent three seasons as a quality control coach for the Cardinals from 2023-25. Before returning to his alma mater, Sharp worked at Purdue under Brohm during the 2022 season as a senior quality control analyst. Prior to his stint with the Boilermakers, he coached at Florida A&M from 2018-2022, working primarily with safeties while serving as the team's passing game coordinator, positions he also held at Prairie View A&M from 2015-17. Sharp began his collegiate coaching career with stops at Henderson State and UAB after working as a defensive graduate assistant at Arkansas from 2009-12. He also played on the Chicago Bears' practice squad during the 2007 season after going through the preseason with the Tennessee Titans. A defensive back for the Cards from 2003-06, Sharp recorded 99 career tackles and a pair of interceptions. In 2006, Sharp recorded a career high 51 tackles in guiding the Cards to a BIG EAST title and a win over Wake Forest in the Orange Bowl. Sharp earned a bachelor's degree in sport administration from UofL in 2007.

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. 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. 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. Brohm spent six seasons as the

Brian Reader is in his second season as a quality control coach after an illustrious playing and coaching career at the University of Idaho. He spent the last two seasons working with the quarterbacks. In 2024, Reader worked closely with Tyler Shough, who threw for 3,195 yards and 23 touchdowns in his lone season with the Cards. Prior to coming to Louisville, Reader most recently served as the running backs coach and recruiting coordinator for the 2022 season at the University of Northern Colorado. Before moving to Greeley, he served in a variety of roles at Idaho from 2016-21 after working his way up from a graduate assistant position to the offensive coordinator job in his final season with the Vandals. Reader also played quarterback in the Arena Football league from 2013-15 after playing the position at Idaho for three seasons. He also played at Arkansas and Monterey Peninsula College. He holds two degrees from his time at Idaho, earning a master of science in adult organizational learning and leadership in 2017 and a bachelor's degree in general studies in 2010.

Chris Barclay, a Louisville native and former National Football League running back, was tabbed to coach the running backs at the University of Louisville in...

Dale Williams, who brings more than 25 years of experience, has returned to the University of Louisville as the offensive line coach in February 2026. Williams rejoins the Cardinals after spending the past two seasons (2024–25) as offensive line coach at Syracuse. In his first season with the Orange, Williams mentored a line that powered the nation’s top passing offense. The offensive line protected quarterback Kyle McCord as he set a new ACC single season passing record, led the country in passing yards and finished among the top 10 in Heisman Trophy voting. Williams’ group also paved the way for running back LeQuint Allen Jr. to surpass 1,000 rushing yards. Offensive linemen Savion Washington and Jakob Bradford earned All-ACC honors for their performances in 2024. Williams originally joined Syracuse after a season with the Cardinals as the program’s quality control coach, helping UofL to its first-ever ACC Championship Game appearance and a 10-win campaign in the first season under Brohm. Prior to Louisville, Williams spent six seasons as offensive line coach at Purdue. He helped lead the Boilermakers to the 2022 Big Ten West title and bowl victories over University of Tennessee in the 2021 Music City Bowl and University of Arizona in the 2017 Foster Farms Bowl. During his tenure with the Boilermakers, Purdue produced some of the top offensive seasons in school history. In 2021, the Boilermakers set single-season program records for passing yards (4,620), completions (407),

David Elson, former head coach at Western Kentucky University, has joined the University of Louisville football staff as a defensive assistant. A veteran coa...

Deion Branch, a former Super Bowl Most Valuable player and one of the school's most successful wide receivers, was named the wide receivers coach in February 2025. Branch was elevated to the wide receiver position after spending three seasons as the team's Director of Player Development. He also served as the team's interim head coach for the 2022 Wasabi Fenway Bowl leading the Cards to a 24-7 win over Cincinnati for the school's first bowl win since 2019. A two-year letterwinner for the Cards, Branch is one of the school's top wide receivers and is one of the 28 players in UofL history to have his jersey honored. His No. 9 was celebrated during the 2010 season. Coming to Louisville out of Jones Community College, Branch played for the Cards from 2000-01 and became one of only three wide receivers in school history to record back-to-back 1,000-yard receiving seasons. Branch led the team with 71 receptions for 1,016 yards and nine touchdowns in his first season with the Cards. He led the Cards to a 9-3 record and the school's first C-USA title. The Cards advanced to the Liberty Bowl where Branch recorded a bowl record 10 catches for 170 yards and one touchdown in a loss to Colorado State. As a senior in 2001, Branch led the team in receptions with 72 while recording a conference-best 1,188 yards and nine touchdowns. Finishing as a first team Conference USA selection, Branch guided the Cardinals to a second-straight C-USA Championship and won the Liberty Bowl, which included Br

Derrick Jackson, who owns over 25 years of collegiate caching experience, has been named a defensive assistant at the University of Louisville.. Jackson re-u...

Domenic Reno, who spent three seasons as the director of football strength and conditioning at Purdue, begins his second season leading the UofL Football Strength and Conditioning program. Besides the three seasons leading the Purdue strength and conditioning efforts, Reno spent three other seasons serving as the senior associate director of football strength and conditioning upon his hiring on Jan. 3, 2017. He has been a member of Brohm's staff since 2014. Reno was named the 2017 National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year. Reno has helped 20 NFL Draft picks prepare for the next level, with several going on to win Super Bowls. Reno joined the Boilermakers after three seasons (2014-16) at Western Kentucky as the associate director for football strength and conditioning and the head strength and conditioning coach for track and field. He was instrumental in guiding the Hilltoppers football program to a pair of Conference USA championships (2015 and 2016). Prior to Western Kentucky, Reno spent three seasons (2011-13) with the New York Giants in the National Football League as assistant strength and conditioning coach, where the Giants won Super Bowl XLVI. He worked and trained eight Pro Bowlers while with the Giants. Reno worked for six years (2004-10) at Wagner College, where he established the first-ever strength and conditioning program, developing year-round individualized programs for all 22 varsity teams. He

Geoff Stanford joined the University of Louisville as an associate strength coach for the football program in December of 2018. Stanford came to Louisville f...

Greg Brohm was hired to be the Chief of Staff for the University of Louisville Football program. A former wide receiver for the Cardinals, Brohm will oversee...

Jontavius Morris was hired as a defensive assistant in February 2026. Morris returns to Louisville after one season at Louisiana Monroe where he served as the defensive ends coach. A former quality control assistant for the Cardinals during the 2023 and 2024 season, Morris has had a history with Brohm over the last couple of seasons during his stops at Purdue and Louisville. Before his stint at ULM and UofL, Morris served as a recruiting assistant and graduate assistant at Purdue. Morris played collegiately at UAB and Western Kentucky as a defensive tackle. In three seasons at UAB, Morris started 19 of 35 games and tallied 54 total tackles. During his junior year in 2014, he finished with 20 tackles, including 2.0 tackles for loss, two blocked kicks and returned a fumble 43 yards for a touchdown against North Texas. After transferring from UAB, Morris spent one season as a starting defensive tackle for Brohm on Western Kentucky's 2015 Conference USA championship team. He finished the season with 34 total tackles, including five for loss, a pair of sacks, three pass breakups and one fumble recovery with the Hilltoppers. Morris graduated from UAB in 2016 with a degree in healthcare management. He earned a master's degree in technology leadership and innovation from Purdue in 2020.

Karl Maslowski, a former quality control coach at the University of Louisville, returns to the Cardinals as special teams coordinator and defensive assistant in January 2023. In 2023, Maslowski's special teams units blocked two punts and was also highlighted by placekicker Brock Travelstead's school-record tying field goals that lifted the Cards to a 13-10 win at NC State. Before revisiting Louisville, Maslowski spent one season with Brohm at Purdue as the special team coordinator and an assistant linebackers coach. In his lone season with the Boilermakers, Maslowski helped guide Purdue to its first ever Big Ten Championship appearance. Throughout the season, the special teams unit blocked two field goals, converted two successful fake punts, and developed all-conference return specialist Charlie Jones. In the Big Ten Championship, place kicker Mitchell Fineran set a championship game record of five field goals made. Maslowski was instrumental in guiding Fineran to become the most accurate kicker in Purdue history Maslowski spent three seasons (2019-21) at Louisville where he assisted in the development of James Turner, who converted 13-of-15 field goal attempts in 2020 and two-time all-ACC Return Specialist Hassan Hall. He also assisted place kicker Blanton Creque in setting a school record for career field goal percentage and punter Mason King setting a school record for career punt average. Maslowski owns 10 years of experience as a special teams coordinator at the FBS and

Kieran Douglas is in his third season as a graduate assistant at the University of Louisville, assisting with the linebackers and assistant coach Mark Ivey. Prior to joining the Louisville staff, Douglas played linebacker at Purdue for five seasons from 2018-22. He appeared in 41 career games, making 13 career starts. In his final year in 2022, Douglas played in all 14 games where he finished with 43 tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss. He intercepted his lone pass at Illinois in the final minutes to secure a win over the Fighting Illini. As a fifth-year performer in 2021, Douglas recorded a career best 67 tackles and one interception. Douglas played in eight games in 2019 where he was an Academic All-Big Ten selection. Before his time at Purdue, Douglas played one season at West Point.

Mark Ivey begins his eighth season at the University of Louisville, and the fourth under head coach Jeff Brohm. Starting off as the linebackers coach from 2023-2025, Ivey was promoted to co-defensive coordinator and moved to the defensive line for the 2026 season. Under Ivey's guidance, the Cardinals were a pair of linebackers in 2024. T.J. Quinn and Stanquan Clark recorded 82 and 76 tackles, respectively, to pace the Cards. Quinn led the Cards in tackles for the second-straight year while Clark was second on the team with 76 in his first full playing season. In his first year directing a new position group, Ivey oversaw the development of Quinn, who in his first season as a starter, led the team in tackles with 92. Quinn recorded four games of 10 or more tackles en route to earning all-league honors. Before moving to linebackers coach in 2023, Ivey spent four seasons coaching the defensive line for the Cardinals. He mentored standout Ashton Gillotte to All-ACC honorable mention accolades in 2022. The long-time assistant coach pushed Jared Goldwire to produce his two best seasons, earning him a free-agent contract with the Los Angeles Chargers. The 2020 campaign saw him record 35 tackles and a pair of sacks to earn him second team All-ACC accolades by the Associated Press. Coaching the defensive line in 2019, the Cardinals increased their sack total from 11 in 2018 to 27 in that year, with defensive lineman G.G. Robinson leading the group with 4.0. Before joining the Louisvil

Mark Sander returns to Louisville as a quality control coach after playing linebacker for the Cardinals from 1986-90. Since 2002, Sander has worked in the Derby City as a head football coach at the high school level, most recently coaching at Bullitt East High School from 2016-19. He also coached and served as the athletic director at Iroquois High School from 2012-16 and at DeSales High School from 2002-12. Sander has also had coaching stops as a linebackers coach for the Cologne Centurions of NFL Europe as well as a three-year stint at Florida Atlantic University. After concluding his playing career in Louisville, Sander played linebacker professionally in the NFL and World Football League from 1991-97. Sander earned a bachelor's degree in political science from UofL in 1991 and also holds a master of arts in teaching from the University of The Cumberlands in 2016.

Mason Petrino was hired as a quality control specialist for offense at the University of Louisville in 2024. Petrino comes to Louisville after spending one season as an assistant coach at UT Martin during the 2023 season, serving as the team's wide receiver's coach. Before joining the staff at UT Martin, Petrino serve as an offensive graduate assistant at Purdue for the 2021 and 2022 campaigns. During his time with the Boilermakers, the program won a 2022 Big Ten West conference championship. Prior to his role at Purdue, Petrino served as an offensive graduate assistant at Lamar University during the 2020 COVID-impacted season. Petrino played 37 games at quarterback for Idaho where he played for his father, head coach Paul Petrino from 2016-19. He finished his career by completing 421-of-675 pass attempts (62.5 percent) for 4,310 yards and 35 touchdowns. Arguably his best game came in an overtime victory against Northern Arizona when he threw for a career-high 563 yards and seven touchdowns in the win. Petrino graduated from the University of Idaho in 2019.

Noah Fisher is in his second season as the graduate assistant, working with the offensive line and tight ends. He assisted with position and playbook meetings, and helped in recruiting. Fisher also spent one season at Georgia Southern where he also worked with the offensive line. As a player, Fisher played one year at Tulane (2018) and four years at South Alabama (2014-18), where he graduated with a political science degree.

A veteran coach and former Louisville assistant, Paul Petrino returns to the Cardinals as Senior Offensive Assistant, overseeing the tight ends. This marks Petrino’s third stint at Louisville. He previously coached wide receivers from 1998–99 before returning as offensive coordinator and receivers coach from 2003–06, a period that produced some of the most explosive offenses in program history. Under Petrino’s direction, the Cardinals led the nation in both total offense (539.8 yards per game) and scoring offense (49.8 points per game) in 2004, while the 2006 offense ranked second nationally at 475.5 yards per game. Petrino brings more than 35 years of coaching experience back to Louisville after spending the past two seasons at South Alabama. He served as the Jaguars’ offensive coordinator during the 2025 campaign after coaching wide receivers in 2024, continuing a career defined by offensive productivity and player development. His extensive résumé includes nine seasons as head coach at the University of Idaho (2013–21), where he guided the program through a major transition and earned Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year honors in 2016 following a nine-win season and a Famous Idaho Potato Bowl victory. Petrino has also held offensive coordinator positions at Arkansas (two stints), Illinois, Central Michigan, and Louisville. In addition to his collegiate experience, Petrino spent the 2007 season in the NFL as the Atlanta Falcons’ wide receivers coach. He has coached quarte

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Shawn Love was elevated to Director of Sports Medicine/Football in April of 2022 after serving as the Associate Football Athletic Trainer for the Cardinals since July of 2018. Along with the collaboration of team physicians, Love is responsible for directly overseeing the health care of football student-athletes. He helps to develop and implement strategies and protocols to prevent, treat, and rehabilitate athletic injuries and illnesses. Love joined U of L after four seasons as an Assistant Football Athletic Trainer at the University of Kansas, including serving as the interim Head Football Athletic Trainer in the spring of 2018. At KU, Love was responsible for the inventory and ordering of medical supplies for the football facility. He also served as an adjunct professor for the CAATE accredited undergraduate program at Kansas from 2014-18. Before joining the Jayhawks, Love was an Assistant Athletic Trainer at Duke University where he covered baseball and aided the football program. A 2008 graduate from Eastern Illinois University with a degree in Athletic Training, Love earned a master's degree in Athletic Training from the University of Kentucky in 2010. At UK, he worked two seasons with the baseball and football programs as a Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer. Following his graduation from Kentucky, Love served as a year-long Athletic Training intern with the New England Patriots during the 2010 NFL season and began his career as a training camp intern with the San Fra

A veteran secondary coach, Steve Ellis was named cornerbacks coach at Louisville for the 2023 season. He was named co-defensive coordinator in 2026. In his first two seasons at Louisville, Ellis has brought experience and intensity to the cornerback position that has help produce a pair of NFL draft selections. Quincy Riley , who intercepted five passes over the past two seasons, was a fourth-round selection of the New Orleans Saints and Jarvis Brownlee was drafted in the 2024 draft by the Tennessee Titans. Before coming to Louisville, Ellis helped East Carolina become one of the top ball-hawking units in the nation. Ellis’ group netted a combined total of 25 interceptions over a two-year span, representing ECU’s highest per-game clip (1.19) since the 2013 and 2014 campaigns when they averaged 1.23 interceptions per game. Leading ECU to a bowl game for the first time since 2014, the 2021 Pirates stood 14th nationally and second in the AAC with 15 interceptions. Under Ellis’ watchful eye, Ja’Quan McMillian captured the 2021 NCAA FBS Statistical Championship in passes defended (1.75), while standing fourth nationally in total interceptions, fifth in interceptions per game (0.42) and 22nd in fumbles recovered (0.67) to go along with his 56 tackles - which was second among all Pirate defenders. McMillian was a five-time 2021 Second-Team All-America selection (FWAA, Associated Press, The Sporting News, The Athletic and Phil Steele Magazine), a semifinalist for the Jim Thorpe Award

Vince Marrow, widely regarded as one of the premier recruiters in college football, has been named the Executive Director of Player Personnel and Recruiting at the University of Louisville. With over two decades of coaching and recruiting experience, Marrow brings a proven track record of success at the highest levels of collegiate football. He joins the Cardinals following 12 highly successful seasons at Kentucky, where he served in multiple key roles including associate head coach, recruiting coordinator, tight ends coach, and NFL liaison. Marrow joined Kentucky's staff in 2013 to tutor the tight ends before adding recruiting coordinator to his title in 2014 and additionally being named Associate Head Coach for the 2019 season. During Marrow's tenure, the Wildcats won at least seven or more games seven times and reached post-season play on eight occasions. The Wildcats won 10 games twice in 2018 and 2021, which both seasons culminated with wins over Big Ten teams in the Citrus Bowl. As an elite recruiter, Marrow was impactful on the recruiting trail where UK has been as high as No. 14 in the 247 recruiting rankings in 2022, the highest mark in the history of the UK program. He was named a Top 10 recruiter by 247Sports in 2024. Before joining Mark Stoops at Kentucky, Marrow mentored the Nebraska tight ends for two years, 2011 and 2012. Prior to his stint at Nebraska, Marrow spent six years in the coaching ranks, mostly in professional football with NFL Europe and the United

Will Bramel is in his second season as a Graduate Assistant coach on head coach Jeff Brohm’s staff. Before joining the Louisville staff, Bramel sent two year...