Louisville football has had quite the coaching staff switch-up this offseason, as the Cardinals have lost a handful of coaches after a successful three seasons under Jeff Brohm. The Cardinals have already replaced their defensive coordinators by promoting from within and making Mark Ivey and Steve Ellis Co-defensive coordinators, and now they will add a couple more coaches for defense and recruiting.
Yesterday, it was reported that Louisville will hire Murray State’s defensive line coach, Me’Leick Miles, and Bowling Green’s defensive pass game coordinator and secondary coach, Derrick Jackson. The Cardinals' two newest coaches will help out on defense and recruiting. Miles' new role with the Cardinals will be defensive quality control/recruiting, and Jackson’s new role with Louisville will be a senior defensive assistant.
Louisville is hiring Bowling Green defensive pass game coordinator and secondary coach Derrick Jackson in a senior defensive assistant role and Murray State DL coach Me’Leick Miles in a defensive quality control role, sources tell @On3.
— Pete Nakos (@PeteNakos) February 15, 2026
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Jeff Brohm adds two more trusted names to his Louisville football staff
Jackson is a face Brohm is very familiar with, as the Cardinals' new senior defensive assistant was Brohm’s secondary coach at Purdue in 2017 and 2018. The two coached together for a couple of seasons, during which Purdure’s defense finished in the top 25 in multiple stats in 2017 and ended the season 7-6 after being 3-9 the previous year.
Outside of his time with Brohm at Purdue, Jackson has been a collegiate coach for over 25 years, making stops at Wake Forest, Syracuse, Michigan State, Army, Bowling Green, and more. He left Brohm and Purdue to go be the associate head coach, defensive coordinator, and safeties coach at Northern Illinois in 2019, and then went to Bowling Green in 2023. In his first season with the Falcons, he helped guide that team with the fourth most interceptions in college football with 17 and the most takeaways in the nation with 28.
As for Miles, he is another familiar face for Brohm, having been with him at both Purdue and Louisville. Before his two seasons with Murray State, the Cards' newest defensive quality control/recruiting coach was a defensive graduate assistant for Louisville in 2023. He worked primarily with the defensive line, which was dominant under future Kansas City Chief Ashton Gillotte.
Before his time with the Cardinals, Miles was a graduate assistant at Purdue under Brohm. Miles worked with Brohm at Purdue from 2021-2023, during which the Boilermakers posted some of their best seasons, including an impressive 9-4 record in 2021 and an 8-6 record in 2022.
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