The Pursuit of Excellence with Stanford GM Andrew Luck
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4.3 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks sit down with Stanford General Manager and former Colts quarterback Andrew Luck to discuss his transition from playing in the NFL to leading his alma mater. Luck reflects on how Jim Harbaugh influenced his decision to attend Stanford, the importance of authenticity in leadership and how the relentless pursuit of excellence defines the Cardinal culture.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. |
| 0:11.4 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to Move the Sticks, DJ and Buck with you. |
| 0:14.9 | And Buck, man, we've had some cool guests on this show. |
| 0:18.3 | We've had World Series champs. |
| 0:19.7 | We've had NFL champs, college champs, you know, you name it across a wide variety of spectrums. But today's guest, I might be more fired up than any of them. Yeah, former one overall pick, Andrew Luck, is going to join the program. Talk about all things. Stanford, his new role as a general manager and just making a transition for being a standout |
| 0:37.8 | player to being a standout team building. Yeah. And if you're if you're thinking this is going to be a |
| 0:43.0 | deep dive into his NFL career or, you know, why he decided to retire at such a young age, |
| 0:48.1 | that's not what this is. This is, this is about the future. This is about Andrew Luck as the |
| 0:53.1 | general manager of Stanford football, |
| 0:55.3 | someone who has such a unique background and experiences, you know, really at Stanford as well as |
| 1:01.3 | going on to the NFL, whose dad was an administrator and an athletic director. And now he finds |
| 1:07.1 | himself in this role of trying to revive a Stanford football program that he helped build up. |
| 1:12.7 | He's kind of come crashing back down and he's in the process of trying to get it back onto the mountaintop. |
| 1:17.3 | So one of the more fascinating men in all of sports and a conversation we're really looking forward to, |
| 1:22.9 | and I think you're going to enjoy it. |
| 1:24.0 | Here's our chat with Andrew Luck. |
| 1:27.1 | All right, but excited to have with us a player we both scouted back in our NFL days |
| 1:32.0 | and someone who has had an incredible journey and is now the general manager for the Stanford |
| 1:36.4 | Cardinal. Andrew Luck, join us. Andrew, how you doing, man? |
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