Louisville's Takeaways From the 2023 ACC Football Kickoff

 The Atlantic Coast Conference held their annual Football Kickoff media event earlier this week, and you can imagine, the Louisville football program was present and had plenty to discuss regarding the upcoming season.

Below are some of the more impactful takeaways points over the course of the three-day event in Charlotte, N.C.

Louisville will kickoff the 2023 season vs. Georgia Tech on Friday, Sept. 1 as part of the Aflac Kickoff Game.

Brohm is very clearly in "win now mode."

Usually whenever a new coach takes over a program, they are either inheriting a downtrodden team or experience a mass exodus of top flight talent. Fortunately for head coach Jeff Brohm, neither was the case.

Not only did Louisville manage to go 8-5 last season, he was able to limit the amount of impact playmakers that entered the transfer portal, while simultaneously adding a plethora a new talent from the high school ranks and the transfer portal. Because of this, Brohm is expecting Louisville to be competitive in year one under his watch instead of being in a transitionary period.

"In today's age of college athletics it's about winning now," he said during Louisville's formal ACC Kickoff presser. "It's about doing it, in my opinion, with our current football team and any new pieces we've added, and we want to do that in year one, and it's important that you do that."

The Cardinals might be losing key playmakers like Malik Cunningham, Yasir Abdullah and YaYa Diaby, but they have combated that with bringing in the No. 1 transfer portal class in college football, according to On3. On top of that, they're also bringing in the No. 24 high school recruiting class in the nation according to 247Sports.

This new collections of players also seem to buy into Brohm's desires to win right out of the gates.

"They're hungry. They want to achieve greatness," he said. "We've got some really good components to our team, some great experience. They've done a lot of really good things mixed in with some youth that maybe is right on the cusp of getting that done."

Brohm and the program are not shying away from pressure and expectations.

Of course, Brohm being a Louisville native and UofL alum is a massive reason why Cardinals fans have clamored for him to return for so long. But another aspect of it is that he is a proven winner. Inheriting a Purdue program that had gone 9-39 under the previous regime, he guided the Boilermakers to a 36-34 overall record, including going 8-5 this past season with a berth in the Big Ten Championship.

Now that Brohm is back at his alma mater, there are a lot of local and national expectations that he will be able to elevate Louisville like he did Purdue, especially considering he is a Derby City native. Not only is Brohm accepting the pressure that comes with his job situation, he is embracing it.

"I didn't have to come back but I wanted to come back," Brohm said via WDRB. "I love the city. I love the school. And I wanted to help elevate the program as best I could. ... When you're back home, I would think, inside, you put a little extra pressure on yourself to get it done."

In fact, Brohm is even going a step further. While reaching the college football mountaintop is undoubtedly be a daunting task for a non-traditional football power like Louisville, that's something he strives to do before it's all said and done.

"In the end, I want to try to bring a championship to Louisville," Brohm said on the ACC Network.

Staff continuity will help Brohm with the transition to Louisville.

From a Louisville standpoint, they have almost an entirely new staff occupying the Howard Schnellenberger Complex. The only assistant coach holdover from the Scott Satterfield era is Mark Ivey, who is now coaching the linebackers after previously overseeing the defensive line.

But for Brohm himself, there is a lot of familiarity. Of the 10 position assistant coaching on his staff, seven of them followed him from Purdue: offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Brian Brohm, running backs coach Chris Barclay, wide receivers coach Garrick McGee, tight ends coach Ryan Wallace, secondary coach Ron English, defensive line coach Mark Hagen and special teams coach Karl Maslowski

This might be far from Brohm's first time walking around the football complex, but doing so as the head man is provides a new set of challenges. Having so many familiar faces around him on his staff will help him as he tries to guide his alma mater to new heights.

“Obviously if you’re familiar with people and you’re battle tested with them and you know what to expect when the going gets tough, they’re the ones that you’re gonna rely on the most,” Brohm said via the Courier-Journal.