Andrew Luck almost retired one year earlier. Entering the 2018 season -- his seventh with the Indianapolis Colts -- fresh off of a 2017 campaign spent on the sidelines due to a shoulder injury, Luck had serious questions about his future.

Stanford fired football coach Troy Taylor on Tuesday, less than a week after an ESPN report revealed that Taylor had twice been the subject of third-party investigations into complaints from athletic department employees over hostile behavior.

Frank Reich has no illusions about a long-term future as the 36th head coach of the Stanford football program. Next year, general manager Andrew Luck will hire a 37th head coach and everybody knows it.

Luck is shouldering the load, while Reich’s only objective for the rest of 2025 is to coach football. Luck said his role as general manager at Stanford continues to prioritize fundraising for NIL and creating new revenue streams in order to keep up in this fast-paced era of college athletics.

Luck moved quickly in his new role as general manager of the football program, hiring Reich less than a week after making the decision to fire Taylor following a report that became public saying Taylor had been investigated twice for allegedly mistreating staffers.

Stanford's football program has been in dire need of a reboot. Since the end of the 2018-19 season, the Cardinal haven't won more than four games in a single ye

Stanford football GM Andrew Luck said he wasn't sure "how little external pressure or constituent " he felt in the wake of ESPN's report about Troy Taylor but did have "some clarity after some time" that the program needed a reset.

Andrew Luck and Stanford hired Frank Reich to serve as its interim head coach for the 2025 college football season.

Frank Reich was shopping at Costco in Greensboro, N.C., when his onetime Indianapolis Colts quarterback, Andrew Luck, called. Their conversation led to more conversations, and ultimately to an uncommon coaching offer.