College football’s 2019 coaching carousel predictions

4. Louisville and Purdue

Jeff Brohm isn’t going to stay put at Purdue for much longer. However, he has to have a destination for him to leave the Boilermakers after only two seasons. He finished his run at Western Kentucky with a 30-10 record in three seasons including a 3-0 bowl record with the Hilltoppers. Brohm moved up from the Group of Five Conference-USA ranks to the Power Five and the Big Ten.

In year one at lowly Purdue, Brohm finished 7-6 with another bowl win taking his career total to a perfect 4-0. What Brohm brings to a school is a detailed and experienced offensive mind that spent six seasons in the NFL and one in the XFL before turning to coaching.

With Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich fired for scandals in the basketball program led by Rick Pitino, head football coach Bobby Petrino doesn’t have his protection from the athletic director that hired him. He has a shady past himself dating back to his time departure with the Atlanta Falcons and his tenure at Arkansas. If you mix in his background and his inability to win double-digit games during his second tenure as the head coach of the Cardinals, Petrino may not be long for the Louisville experience.

Brohm would be the perfect fit to right the ship at his alma mater. Having both played at Louisville and coached there as an assistant from 2003-08, during one of their best runs and leaving during one of their worst runs in recent program history.

At Purdue, Mike Sanford Jr. makes sense as a replacement for Brohm. The Western Kentucky connection to Brohm is strong and other former Hilltoppers coaches have gone on to much success recently as well, including Willie Taggart and Bobby Petrino, too. Sanford also has experience coaching in high academic settings like Purdue after spending seasons at Yale, Stanford, and Notre Dame.

However, he will have to pick up his record from a 6-7 season in 2017 in order to be able to move up to a Power Five job in 2018.