It’s been over a decade since Andrew Luck made Stanford the epicenter of college football on the West coast, finishing as the Heisman Trophy runner-up twice and guiding the Cardinal to two BCS bowl appearances. Four years after abruptly retiring from the NFL at age 29, Luck is now back at Stanford—though he’s traded in his football pads for a backpack.
That was the news Stanford coach David Shaw broke on Wednesday. Speaking as a guest on the Rich Eisen Show, Shaw was asked if Luck was done playing football for good when he revealed that his former quarterback has actually enrolled in grad school this fall and is back on campus—though he admitted that he isn’t so sure he was supposed to reveal that news publicly.