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GOLD AND BLACK ILLUSTRATED VOLUME 27, ISSUE 3 22 were both on the staff with you this season at West- ern Kentucky? How do you handle disputes? Is it hard because you're so close? Brohm: "It's a lot more difficult than you think. Any time you're half-boss and half-brother and things get a little heated, they want to use the brother card a little bit, give their opinion a little bit more. But, you know what? It's actually good for me. I'm one of those people between my brothers, my dad, my wife, my son, they all like to give their opinion. So I'm used to listening to a lot of opinions and being able to take at least a little bit good out of it. I try to listen as well as I can, not that I'm perfect at it by any means, but I am used to hearing a lot of opinions with both brothers. They both do a great job, but they're going to tell me what they think. "But that's what you want. As a head coach, you don't want people who just agree with everything you do. You want everyone to be entitled to their own. I want people to challenge what I'm thinking. That way in the end we come up with the best decision we can. But it's been a good relationship." Gold and Black: What are some of your favorite stories? Brohm: "Prob- ably the one most people remember is when I coached (Brian) in (Lou- isville). That was even tougher as an assistant coach coaching your brother because he was very good, actually, and when we disagreed sometimes, he definitely played the brother card. One of those got caught on camera one time in a very important game and I probably went overboard a little bit. But that's what brothers do. You fight a little bit, you make up and you move on. Didn't bother me one bit. Didn't bother him. But there's always going to be a little bit of that tension when there's a struggle there, but it's good for us. "After it happened, I remember going down and re- cruiting in Florida the next week and that was all the coaches wanted to talk about, 'Oh, I saw you getting after your brother.' I'm like, 'Yeah, OK.' I didn't live that one down for awhile. It was actually much calmer than people think. I think it just caught me at the wrong time, and I was just trying to demonstrate to him how to step up in the pocket, which I didn't think he was doing. But easier said than done. He had an opinion. "To me, I even tell my coaches now, when it comes game time, I don't want a bunch of people agreeing with what I'm saying. I want a little competitive fire. If there's a little back and forth, that really doesn't bother me. As long as we're somewhat respectful about it, I want people to want to win and it's got to be important to them. I think if your players see a little bit of competitive fire on your sideline, they know winning is important to you. I think Kurt Lahrman Jeff Brohm spent an hour talking challenge, offense, family and more on "Gold and Black LIVE" on Dec. 19.