Jeff Brohm details how addition of Vince Marrow changes Louisville playbook

The Louisville Cardinals and Jeff Brohm made a splash hire this offseason, bringing in Vince Marrow from rival Kentucky. He’s now going to act as the Cardinals’ Executive Director of Player Personnel and Recruiting.

For Brohm, hiring Marrow helped make Louisville’s football program more professional. At a time when the House settlement is taking effect and teams need to adjust on the fly, that’s going to be vital to getting the best talent in the building the Cardinals can manage.

“I think it does,” Jeff Brohm said. “I think it really helps complete what we believe in and what we’re doing. Yes, we want to help develop our players for the next level. That’s by what we coach, how we do it, how we practice, how we play, how we perform, and then we want to acquire the best talent we can to help get that done. He definitely has the ability to do all of those things.”

Vince Marrow is coming to Louisville with better than two decades of experience in coaching and recruiting. He’s made multiple stops along the way as a coach, but he has been with the Kentucky Wildcats since 2013, which is the first year Mark Stoops was the team’s head coach. There, he’d be the team’s associate head coach, recruiting coordinator, NFL liaison, and tight ends coach. So, his new role is more administrative, but one that Brohm thinks he can thrive in.

“He has strengths that to others it takes a lot of hard work. It comes very natural to him. I just think that he can help us continue to bring in the best prospects we can,” Brohm said. “That want to be here, that want to play at the highest level, and he’s just very good at it.”

In the 2025 transfer cycle, Louisville put together the 51st-ranked transfer class, compared to the 16th-ranked transfer class that Kentucky put together. On top of that, in the last high school recruiting cycle, Louisville had the 68th-ranked class, compared to the 28th-ranked class for Kentucky. So, there is a need to recruit better for the Cardinals moving forward.

Vince Marrow is going to focus on recruiting and he had a message for teams around the country. Louisville is coming to recruit among the best programs.

“That’s a good question,” Marrow said. “But, if you know anything about me? I mean, my wife will tell you, my kids will tell you. I don’t care who I’m recruiting against. They can be anybody over there. I want to win and I want to win that battle. So, it can be Kentucky, it can be Michigan, it can be Miami. I don’t care. It’s just, you better be ready and prepared to deal with us now here at Louisville. You better be prepared because I really believe we’re going to take this to another level.”

Louisville is hoping that this hire is going to have a long-term impact on the program. That means not just competing in the ACC, but nationally as well.