Andrew Luck was a little jet-lagged after a private wedding ceremony in March of 2019 in Prague. He and wife Nicole were wed in the Czech Republic, but hadn’t yet put pen to paper in the U.S. back in Indiana. The pragmatic NFL quarterback immediately knew who to call in a pinch — his head coach. Luck asked Frank Reich, an ordained minister, if he would marry the pair at City Hall in Indianapolis. Reich happily obliged that April.
Nearly six years later, that familiar intuition of knowing who to turn to when in a sudden bind struck Luck once again. Call Frank Reich. It usually works out.
Last week, Stanford introduced the 63-year-old Reich as the interim head coach of the Cardinal for the 2025 football season. Luck, now the shot caller of his alma mater as the program’s general manager, fired former head coach Troy Taylor after an ESPN report detailed multiple investigations into inappropriate behavior toward female staffers.
Luck tabbed Taylor to serve as Stanford’s caretaker instead of trying to land a new permanent coach at the most inopportune time in the football calendar. It’s been a year and a half since Reich last coached football. The former Colts coach was fired following a nightmare 1-10 start in his first and only season as coach of the Carolina Panthers in…
