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Andrew Luck is back at Stanford, not just as a former player basking in past glories, but as the general manager of the football program that once revolved around him as the school’s star quarterback. After walking away from a seven-year NFL career, he eventually returned to his alma mater with a mission to modernize the program while preserving the traditions and developmental opportunities that shaped him as an athlete.
Luck’s path back to Stanford football began with a meeting he requested with university president Jonathan Levin, where he shared his thoughts on the program and its future. The Cardinal have not been to a bowl game since 2018 and have failed to win more than four games in each of the last six seasons.
Luck helped Stanford football reach its peak in the early 2010s, when the program was a fixture in BCS bowls and a national title contender. But 14 years since his departure, the Cardinal have slid into mediocrity, struggling to regain relevance.
Late last November, the day after the Cardinal lost their final game of the season to finish 3-9 and 16th in the ACC, news broke that school’s two-time runner-up to the Heisman Trophy was going to be heading back to Palo Alto as the program’s GM. Ahead of Stanford’s first game of the season, which will be at Hawaii on Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET on CBS), Luck opened up about how the idea of the position first presented itself.
“It actually wasn’t a phone call,” Luck, 35, said in an interview with Inside College Football’s Rick Neuheisel. “My wife and I and family, we had plans to sort of make our way out of Palo Alto after I did my master’s in education. And I sort of requested an audience with our new president to download on football and share some thoughts. I realized a few…
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Author : Cody Nagel
Publish date : 2025-08-20 14:10:00
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