Jeff Brohm says the Louisville coaching setup that worked against Florida State will stay in place as the Cardinals head to Syracuse for a Saturday night ACC road game.
Louisville is coming off a 44-20 home win over Florida State and now turns to its second conference road trip of the season, taking on Syracuse at 7:30 p.m. The Cardinals enter the matchup at 3-3 overall and 2-2 in the ACC, while Syracuse is 2-3 and 0-3.
At his weekly press conference, Brohm made it clear the staff adjustments made before the Florida State game are not a one-week experiment. Offensive coordinator Brian Brohm will continue as the game-day playcaller. On the defensive side, assistant Mike Cassity, who was previously a Louisville defensive coordinator, and David Elson will keep working with Mark Ivey in the booth.
"We're going to proceed accordingly," Brohm said. "I think that it's important that everybody does their part.
So I think I've got to make sure that offensively, defensively, special teams, we're doing everything we can to win and get better. And then our offensive staff has to continue to do what they do and run the offense, execute the offense, and then we've got to continue to get better on defense.
And I just think it's important that at this point I have a full grasp of improving our team as a whole and making sure we get that done."
Brohm also said Louisville is still watching the health of running back Keyjuan Brown and offensive lineman Anwar O'neal. Their status remains uncertain heading into the week.
"Those are the two that we're concerned about that we're not sure," Brohm said. "We won't know until later in the week."
ACC Network will carry the game.
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