Jake Lourim and Danielle Lerner | Courier Journal

The University of Louisville’s long search is over, as athletic director Vince Tyra chose Appalachian State coach Scott Satterfield to be the Cardinals’ next head football coach, according to a source with direct knowledge of the decision.

A Tuesday 4:30 p.m. press conference has been scheduled to announce Satterfield as Bobby Petrino's successor.

The University of Louisville Athletic Association has scheduled meetings starting at 4 p.m. The finance and budget committee is scheduled to meet, followed by the personnel committee at 4:10 and the board of directors at 4:20. The meetings will be at Cardinal Stadium.

Check this out: Meet Louisville football coach Scott Satterfield

Satterfield has been one of the top coaches in the Group of 5 conferences over the past four seasons, winning at least a share of the last three Sun Belt titles. Appalachian State beat Louisiana, 30-19, in the Sun Belt Championship on Saturday. The Mountaineers are 10-2, pushing their record to 51-24 in Satterfield’s six seasons.

Louisville hired an offensive-minded coach, as Tyra said he would. The Cards now can move on from their worst season since 1997 after they finished 2-10 this year and went winless in ACC play.

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"I've said before, it's not a requirement, but it's probably a preference to put points on the board," Tyra said in a news conference Thursday. "There's a lot of high scoring that goes on in college football today. When spread offenses came around, and everybody's in the pistol, things did change. And I think our fans have always enjoyed that. As we moved through conferences, one thing that was consistent was, we scored points."

Satterfield, 45, has spent almost his entire life in North Carolina. He grew up in Hillsborough, about 15 miles outside Durham. He played quarterback at Appalachian State from 1991-95 and returned in 1998 as wide receivers coach.

He became running backs coach for four seasons and quarterbacks coach for six. After one season as offensive coordinator at Toledo and two in the same role at Florida International, he returned to Appalachian State as offensive coordinator in 2012 and took over as the head coach in 2013.

"(He's) a great person, a motivator that has evolved from what I thought was this quiet guy," said Julian Rauch, a kicker at Appalachian State when Satterfield was the quarterbacks coach. "... He's been around good football, and he's brought good football to the school."

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Louisville football: Meet Scott Satterfield

In Satterfield's first season as Appalachian State's head coach, the Mountaineers played in the Southern Conference at the Football Championship Subdivision level and went 4-8.

But when they moved up to the FBS in 2014 and joined the Sun Belt, they jumped to 7-5 and then 11-2. They have finished in the conference’s top three in scoring offense and scoring defense each of the past four seasons.

Satterfield has never coached at a Power Five school, though his teams have threatened to pull off big upsets. The Mountaineers lost to Penn State in overtime this season, 45-38; to Wake Forest last season, 20-19; and to Tennessee in overtime in 2016, 20-13.

Along the way, Satterfield became one of the hottest names in the lower tier of the FBS. He was reportedly a candidate last month for the North Carolina job that went to Mack Brown.

Louisville's top choice, meanwhile, was Purdue coach Jeff Brohm, who withdrew from consideration Wednesday. Tyra met with Brohm last Tuesday to recruit the Louisville native, Trinity graduate and former Cardinal quarterback and assistant coach.

When Brohm announced he would stay at Purdue, Louisville's attention immediately turned to Satterfield, with reports naming him the front-runner Wednesday night.

“I think I owe it to myself and my family to take a look,” Satterfield told the Winston-Salem Journal when asked Friday if he'd be interested. “And I’ve always said I’ll listen. I’ll listen to see what people have to say."

Satterfield confirmed in that interview that his agent, Jimmy Sexton, had spoken with Tyra about the job, but he said he would not speak with anyone about the job until after the Sun Belt Championship.

Satterfield is making $712,500 this year. According to his contract, if he obtains written permission from his athletic director before he agrees to leave, his buyout is $425,000. If he does not, the buyout is $2.1 million.

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