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GOLD AND BLACK ILLUSTRATED VOLUME 27, ISSUE 3 17 ments in his nearly eight-minute opening was an assertion that he would "outwork every other head coach in America." Bragging? Maybe. But when later asked to expound on what that work ethic looks like, Brohm said, "I normally don't talk about that a whole lot. When I address my team, it's one thing we try to stress is how can we find an edge and get an edge in what we do. It starts with me. If I'm going to ask my players to do it, I need to do it." Humble brag? Maybe. It hasn't been Brohm's approach to outwork folks only since he became a head coach. He started doing that when he was a kid, even though he was physically gifted enough in high school to, really, not have to study that much. He was incred- ibly athletic — Oscar Brohm said Jeff clocked a 4.38 electronic time in the 40 — and had scrambles and improvisation with his legs from the QB spot that were legendary. But, even then, Brohm wanted an edge. So, even then, he worked to get one. Even if he was a three-sport star, not only leading the football team to a state championship as the QB but also leading the basketball team in scoring and sparking the baseball team as a home-run-hitting shortstop. "I was one of those guys, I probably didn't have a social life a whole lot," he said. "When people were hanging out and having a good time, I was go- ing to be down in the basement and doing extra chin-ups or push-ups or running outside or shooting more free throws or throwing the ball more in the backyard to try to get that edge. So I kind of developed that growing up. That's just what I believed in and it worked for me and it gave me a way to compete at a higher level once I got to college and then even beyond. I did try to outwork them then." Teammates in high school noticed. "Even back then in the old grainy video, he could dissect what was going on," said Freibert, who was a scout-team DB against Brohm's rocket arm at Trinity in Louisville. "He could talk to his teammates and his teammates had respect for him and respect for what he had to say. In the locker room, no matter what age, how long ago, you don't listen to the guys who aren't leading by example as well. He always did." That kind of devotion to improve didn't stop, no matter how experienced Brohm got. After his junior season at Louisville, Brohm ap- proached head coach Howard Schnellenberger in the offseason with an idea. He'd been pressured pretty heavily that year, in 1992, so he drew up some shot- gun plays and asked Schnellenberger to put them in. Schnellenberger was not a shotgun guy. But by training camp, they were in the playbook. The tweak allowed Brohm to use his mobility and find open re- ceivers, and, in part, helped boost his touchdown total from nine to 20 the next season. By the time he was a head coach at WKU in 2014, it's not just cancer research You can help. cancerresearch.purdue.edu ENABLING LIFE. Cancer research discoveries at Purdue are enabling life by: Delivering cancer killing therapies directly to cancer cells, leaving healthy cells unharmed. Finding new methods to image cancer cells resulting in better detection and diagnosis. Guiding surgeons during surgery by illuminating cancer cells so they glow, resulting in real-time confidence that they have removed all of the cancer. Transitioning newly discovered cancer fighting drugs from the Transitioning newly discovered cancer fighting drugs from the lab to clinical trials. Igniting the body's own immune system to attack cancer. "The prospect of targeting cancer cells using nanotechnology has yet to revolutionize cancer drug delivery. Simply put, the field is in need of fresh insights." Al Alex Wei, professor of organic chemistry, is looking for new insights for nanoparticle delivery to tumor cells and tumor-activated macrophages.