STANFORD, Calif. — Andrew Luck quoted Ernest Hemmingway, rattled off Latin phrases and talked about how his new job as general manager of Stanford’s football program compared to facing a Bill Belichick-coached defense in the NFL.
There might not be anyone more suited than Luck to balance the divergent worlds of big-time football with the values of a university as prestigious as Stanford. That might make him the ideal pick to help shepherd the Cardinal football program into the modern era of college football.
“This amazing place that has, like any institution, its own sort of quirks and culture,” Luck said. “Part of why I’m here is because, I understand a lot of it and lived it as an undergrad and grad student and love it. It holds deep, deep meaning for me.”
The task won’t be easy for Luck. The Cardinal are coming off their fourth straight 3-9 season and are nowhere near the levels they reached in Luck’s time as a player from 2009-11 and in the immediate years after that when Stanford was one of the powers on the West Coast.
The program has slipped in recent years and now must navigate the travails of competing in the ACC with a smaller share of the revenue pie after Stanford was nearly left without a viable conference following the recent realignment.
And now there are questions at head coach after a report last week that Troy Taylor has been investigated twice since taking over before the 2023 season over allegations of hostile and aggressive behavior, as well as personal attacks, against female staff members.
Luck spoke to reporters, before those revelations became public, when he expressed support for Taylor. But he has not commented since the report was published.
Those are issues Luck must address in his new role, along with raising money and…
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