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spot.
After getting cut for the second time in the NFL?
Brohm promptly went to the 49ers and beat out
then-recent Heisman Trophy winner Gino Torretta for
a roster spot. Brohm stayed with the Niners for two
more seasons, his longest single stint with a team in
the league.
After being forced into retirement? Brohm joined
Bobby Petrino's staff at Louisville, seizing on a repu-
tation built as a heady, high-IQ QB.
After that slow start at Western Kentucky in Year
1? Brohm changed his approach, realizing he need-
ed to be an all-encompassing coach, and met with his
defensive staff to make tweaks. And the Hilltoppers
won their final five games, including beating No. 19
Marshall in overtime in the regular-season finale and
winning a bowl game.
For as long as Oscar can remember, Jeff has never
accepted failure as defeat.
For as long as Oscar can remember, Jeff has sum-
moned an inner resolve to fight.
For as long as Oscar can remember, Jeff has seen
challenges as something to savor.
Which may be why Jeff Brohm is the perfect pick to
be Purdue's newest head football coach.
"Challenge" is the whole premise of this new job.
It's a program that has won only nine games in the
last 48.
A program that has no identity.
A program that has played largely to an eerily empty
home stadium.
"I think he's going to approach it as he has in all of
his endeavors," Oscar Brohm said. "He realizes that it
may just have to be a process where you keep working
at it. I'm sure he'll try to turn it around as quick as he
can. I know that when he goes into a game, he goes in
with the idea that he's going to win the game. No mat-
ter who it is. Whether it happens overnight, that's yet
to be seen. But he's thinking with the idea that you'll
have to have a lot of perseverance and determination,
keep working at it."
Jeff Brohm wasn't necessarily looking to leave
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