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Luck would be making a brobdingnagian mistake if he tries to hire a full time coach before an athletic director is hired.
Maybe he can get a package deal like Lynch and Shanahan, but making a permanent hire first would be a recipe for disaster.  I doubt Levin would sign off on principle, but also this is a time when Stanford is in perilous financial straits.

See this message from president of USC.

https://www.president.usc.edu/2025/03/24...e-efforts/


USC is working with an endowment a fraction of Stanford's but Stanford is not immmune from the sudden uncertainty of Federal funding.

A mistake to hire the football coach before an AD is named? 

How so? The football program reports to AL, not the AD.

[PVTree]

Luck would be making a brobdingnagian mistake if he tries to hire a full time coach before an athletic director is hired.
Maybe he can get a package deal like Lynch and Shanahan, but making a permanent hire first would be a recipe for disaster.  I doubt Levin would sign off on principle, but also this is a time when Stanford is in perilous financial straits.

See this message from president of USC.

https://www.president.usc.edu/2025/03/24...e-efforts/


USC is working with an endowment a fraction of Stanford's but Stanford is not immmune from the sudden uncertainty of Federal funding.

A mistake to hire the football coach before an AD is named? 

How so? The football program reports to AL, not the AD.