Andrew Luck on Stanford's commitment, his unique role and more: Q&A with the Cardinal GM

Stanford hired Andrew Luck to a first-of-its-kind general manager role nearly 18 months ago, but in some ways, the Luck era of Stanford football still feels as though it’s in its infancy.The 2026 season will be the first in which the Cardinal are led by a head coach who was both hired by Luck and expected to be there for the long run. When Luck arrived in November 2024, Troy Taylor was already in place, but Luck fired him last spring and installed Frank Reich as the interim coach for 2025. Nearly a year to the day Luck was hired at Stanford, he hired a familiar face, Tavita Pritchard — a former Stanford quarterback, teammate of Luck’s and longtime Cardinal assistant who had most recently coached quarterbacks with the Washington Commanders — as the man to lead the program forward.Advertisement