Jeff Brohm's Louisville football staff takes shape after losses on defense

After losing defensive coordinator and safeties coach Ron English and defensive line coach Mark Hagen, Louisville football has begun to fill its staff vacancies.

Linebackers coach Mark Ivey has moved back to coaching the defensive line to replace Hagen, who reportedly joined Oregon State’s coaching staff. Ivey and cornerbacks coach Steve Ellis will be co-defensive coordinators. Quality control coach Adam Mueller will take over the linebackers room. Mueller was a defensive graduate assistant at Purdue before coming to UofL as a quality control coach in 2023.

After graduating from UConn in 2014, Mueller was an assistant defensive line coach at Morehead State for a year. He then spent three seasons as a graduate assistant at Boston College. He then returned to Morehead State to become the defensive line coach and director of football operations for a year.

In 2019, Mueller was named the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Lake Erie College in Painesville, Ohio. In his first season with the Storm, Mueller’s unit allowed the fewest passing yards in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference and ranked 11th nationally in red zone defense.

After the 2021 season, Mueller went to Purdue and earned a master of science in education.

Ivey initially came to Louisville as the Cards’ defensive line coach under former head coach Scott Satterfield in 2019. During Ivey’s first season coaching the line, the Cardinals increased their sack total from 11 in 2018 to 27. He mentored Jared Goldwire, who signed as an undrafted free agent with the Los Angeles Chargers in 2021, and Yaya Diaby, who was a third-round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers two years later. Ivey also had a hand in Ashton Gillotte’s career, coaching him for two years. Gillotte was a third-round draft pick of the Kansas City Chiefs in 2025.

This story will be updated.

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This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Louisville football staff, Jeff Brohm names co-defensive coordinators