Stanford has a football coach for the 2025 season.
The cardinal should hire former Indianapolis colts and the coach of the Caroline Frank Reich Panthers as an acting coach for the year. The news was reported for the first time by Pete Thamel d’Espn and confirmed by Wilner Hotline of this press organization before Stanford announced the rental at 8 am on Monday.
Reich led to Stanford’s general manager, Andrew Luck, the former choice No. 1 in the NFL draft, during his last game season in 2018 before a surprise retirement in August 2019. Reich led the colts until 2022, then was the coach of the Carolina panthers in 2023 in the middle of a reconstruction.
“I experienced the incredible impact that Frank has demonstrated as a leader and I fully confident that he is the perfect steward for this Stanford Football season,” Luck said in a school statement. “Frank is a teacher, a winner and a coach of the highest caliber.
Reich has never resulted in the college level and will remain for a season in charge of the cardinal, who will then lead a national research for a long -term coach.
Luck and the university dismissed coach Troy Taylor last week after ESPN reported that he was the subject of a investigation twice for his degrading treatment of staff members – especially women. The first investigation ended with a declaration signed in February 2024 according to which Taylor knew he could be dismissed if his conduct continued, but he remained in work even if the two probes noted that his behavior was not up to Stanford standards.
Reich takes over a program that has not won more than four games in the last six seasons and has struggled to adapt to the next era of university sports with names, image and resemblance and the transfer portal.
“Andrew is an elite leader and competitor, and these features, as well as his true passion for this university, resonated in any way and inspired me to accept this role,” Reich said in the press release. “The unique responsibility to supervise the best-athletes in the world, to be the best absolute of what they aspire to do, it is an opportunity that I will fully seize.”
Before the revelations became public on March 19 on Stanford’s investigation into Taylor, Luck met journalists and recalled how Reich, a “deep thinker” who is an ordered minister, gave him advice in their time together in Indianapolis who was applicable to the new role of Luck.
“He says:” There is no guide or manual to be a head coach. Tins only get up and meet the office and you have to face it, “said Luck. “Learning to prioritize it was a large part of the work and learning to count on others, which is of my nature.”
Stanford is still without sports director – or interim – after Bernard Muir resigned at the end of last month. Luck, who was hired in November, reported directly to President Jonathan Levin, who took over last August. These two men and the new sports director will finally determine the long -term management of the football program with the hiring of the long -term coach. This decision buys them time for this decision.
Staff journalists Jon Wilner and Cam Inman contributed to this story.
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