Jeff Brohm

Jeffrey Scott Brohm (born on April 24, 1971 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an Assistant Coach and the Quarterbacks Coach for the Illinois Fighting Illini football team. He previously served in the same capacity at Florida Atlantic University during the 2009 season, Offensive Coordinator for the Louisville Cardinals from 2007–2009 and Quarterbacks Coach from 2003 to 2006 and Assistant Head Coach/Passing Game Coordinator in 2007. During this time, he coached his younger brother Brian Brohm, who was quarterback from 2003 to 2007. Also had brief stint in 2001 as Head Coach of the Louisville Fire Arena Football team.

Brohm played college football at the University of Louisville. He won the Kentucky "Mr. Football" Award in 1988 while attending Trinity High School in Louisville. Brohm played professionally for the San Diego Chargers, Washington Redskins, San Francisco 49ers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Denver Broncos and Cleveland Browns of the National Football League and for the Orlando Rage of the XFL.

Baseball

After a stellar career at Trinity High School, Jeff Brohm was drafted in the 7th round of the 1989 MLB Draft by the Montreal Expos. He turned down the Expos offer in order to accept a scholarship to play football for the University of Louisville. However, after only one year of college football Brohm had a change of heart and decided to pursue playing both sports, by playing minor league baseball during his college summers. He held a workout for all MLB teams prior to the 1990 MLB draft and was selected by the Cleveland Indians in the 4th round. This time Brohm chose to play baseball and football. Brohm played for two summers in the minor leagues before quitting to focus on football. In his two years, he compiled the following statistics:

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References

1. ^ "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}". http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=brohm-001jef. Retrieved September, 11 2011.