RealClearSports: Stanford's Luck Mixing Passes and Classes

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

STANFORD, Calif. — The should-have-been No. 1 pick of last spring’s NFL draft, the quarterback who stayed to finish things as student and athlete, was asked now that Stanford has started its academic year, what it was like again mixing classes and passes.

“I love not having school,’’ said Andrew Luck, to which a journalist blurted, “You never had to take a class again.’’ When the laughter subsided, Luck, said, “I guess that’s true. The joke’s on me, right?’’

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SF Examiner: At Stanford, it all starts with with Luck

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

"Athletes at Stanford are not heroes." A sociology professor at the university, one Sanford Dorenbusch, said that to Sports Illustrated in 1972 when the mood in America, trying to extricate itself from Vietnam, was very unheroic and the mood at Stanford was not much different than it is now.

The school takes itself seriously, selects its students carefully and deals with athletic success in a blend of pride and embarrassment ...

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RealClearSports: Stanford's Luck Able to Do What He Wanted

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

So the kid with the golden arm will wait another year for the gold. Andrew Luck is going to play again for Stanford. A reassuring tale when compared to so many others, but let us not get too deep into morality. His values are admirable. As is his financial situation.

Everyone's negotiable, said Muhammad Ali a long while ago. Everyone, however, is not in the same negotiating position.

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RealClearSports: Stanford's Luck 'Best Player in Country'

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

BERKELEY, Calif. -- It's always been a quarterback school. Way back, there was Frankie Albert, and later John Brodie. Along came Jim Plunkett to win a Heisman. Then John Elway on his way to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Now Stanford has Andrew Luck.

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SF Examiner: Luck to take stage at Notre Dame

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

Andrew Luck understands. Not only the subject matter of his architectural design major — that would be expected of someone from Stanford.

He understands what it means to play a football game at Notre Dame, which he will do Saturday.

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