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From upset hero to head coach: Tavita Pritchard's mission to revive Stanford football
Tavita Pritchard returns to Stanford to lead the football rebuild after a seven-year losing streak, with $100 million raised to support the program's revival, Andrew Luck said.
- On Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, Tavita Pritchard was introduced as Stanford's new head football coach at a press conference, following the Cardinal's Nov. 28 announcement.
- Following Troy Taylor's dismissal and Frank Reich's interim role, Andrew Luck interviewed about 30 candidates and valued Pritchard's knowledge of balancing academics with athletics.
- A Stanford alumnus by background, Tavita Pritchard was the quarterback who led Stanford's 24-23 upset of Southern California as a 41-point underdog in 2007 and coached three seasons with the Washington Commanders.
- Taking over the program, Tavita Pritchard will succeed Frank Reich, interim head coach , call plays, and rebuild the Stanford football program for its 109 young men, Luck said.
- Facing a long rebuild, Stanford football program has a.308 winning percentage over the past seven seasons, but Andrew Luck says recent building blocks and Pritchard's NFL experience may aid next year’s ACC cross-country travel.
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From upset hero to head coach: Tavita Pritchard's mission to revive Stanford football
Tavita Pritchard returns to Stanford as head coach, aiming to revive a football program that hasn't had a winning record in seven years.
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Tavita Pritchard returns to take over Stanford football: ‘It’s a dream’
STANFORD – Long before Andrew Luck became an NFL star, he was sitting on a couch in the Stanford quarterback room, a nervous freshman asking veteran starter Tavita Pritchard a basic protection question. “I worked up the courage to ask Tavita what hound-two protection was,” Luck said. “Tavita spent 20 minutes with me on the couch. I couldn’t hear anything the first 10 minutes because I was too intimidated that the starting quarterback was actuall…
·Walnut Creek, United States
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