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Mike Rutherford says the sticking point is essentially that Josh Heird doesn’t believe Jeff Brohm was offered the Penn State job, even though Brohm’s camp said that he was, formally or informally.

What to know about new Louisville Associate HC John Andrzejek, including his defensive philosophies: - Florida assistant on 2025 National Title team as defensive coordinator - Head Coach for (1) season at Campbell before stepping away due to lack of funding - Prior to Florida, was assistant at Washington State, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, San Francisco, and Columbia - Primary recruiter for NBA draftees Mouhamed Gueye, CJ Elleby - Graduated from Columbia with degree in Philosophy - Named ESPN 40 Under 40 coach in 2020 - Helped Florida go from ~100th to 6th ranked defense in 2024-25 when he moved to defensive coordinator spot - Recruits Europe heavily - Guided Campbell to top 20 defense in made 3 pt shots allowed at 6.1 per game Philosophy: - Believes in defensive strategy with heavy rotating with no-middle defense and 3/4 fronting the post - Borrows from Houston, Iowa State, & St. Mary’s defensive philosophies - Prefers big, athletic players and players owning their defensive assignment rather than helping - Believes in forcing opponents to non-dominant hand in the upper third of the floor - Is well studied on Houston’s defensive philosophies. Says he’s watched every possession of every Houston game since 2022 and every Iowa State possession since ‘23 - Believes in helping aggressively forcing baseline and slot drives and covering down aggressively on the dunker spot - Fully adapted switching high and low 100% of the time at Florida. Is fully committed to the switching low and high at UF and Campbell - Wants to keep the ball on the side at all costs - Bigs are always responsible for stopping the ball high as second line of defense - Heavily focused on contesting and running players off 3 point line - Talks about “embracing the scramble”, playing “really, really hard” and operating on instinct - Says teams that his defenses struggle most with have elite off-ball screening and are able to play within those concepts- Mentions UConn & UK as teams great at this - Essentially, what Pat Kelsey wants to do on offense (3s and layups), he wants his defense to sell out to prevent Other: - Highly intelligent guy who is well studied and very defensive minded - Maniacal preparer and communicator - Deep thinker and elite fundamentals teacher - Heavy on film study and preparation

Especially after getting an offer from Penn State, there should have already been a contract extension for Coach Brohm finalized. This has been going on for months, Heird needs to get it done.

Can confirm that Josh Heird and Jeff Brohm met to discuss a contract extension this week, and it ended with Jeff Brohm kicking Josh Heird out of his office. I am a fan first and I share this because I think most fans want Jeff to be here for years to come.