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STANFORD, Calif. — Andrew Luck is returning to Stanford in hopes of turning around a struggling football program that he once helped become a national power. Athletic director Bernard Muir announced Saturday that Luck has been hired as the general manager of the Stanford football team, tasked with overseeing all aspects of the program that just finished a 3-9 season under coach Troy Taylor. “I am a product of this university, of Nerd Nation; I love this place,” Luck said. “I believe deeply in Stanford’s unique approach to athletics and academics and the opportunity to help drive our program back to the top. Coach Taylor has the team pointed in the right direction, and I cannot wait to work with him, the staff, and the best, brightest, and toughest football players in the world.” Luck has kept a low profile since his surprise retirement from the NFL at age 29 when he announced in August 2019 that he was leaving the Indianapolis Colts and pro football. Cardinal alum Andrew Luck, left, watches a Feb. 2 game between Stanford and Southern California on Feb. 2 in Stanford, Calif. In his new role, Luck will work with Taylor on recruiting and roster management, and with athletic department and university leadership on fundraising, alumni relations, sponsorships, student-athlete support and stadium experience. “Andrew’s credentials as a student-athlete speak for themselves, and in addition to his legacy of excellence, he also brings a deep understanding of the college football landscape and community, and an unparalleled passion for Stanford football,” Muir said. “I could not think of a person better qualified to guide our football program through a continuously evolving landscape, and I am thrilled that Andrew has agreed to join our team. This change represents a very different way of operating our program and competing in an evolving college football landscape.” Luck was one of the players who helped elevate Stanford into a West Coast powerhouse for several years. He helped end a seven-year bowl drought in his first season as starting quarterback in 2009 under coach Jim Harbaugh and led the Cardinal to back-to-back BCS bowl berths his final two seasons, when he was the Heisman Trophy runner-up both seasons. Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck throws a pass during the first quarter of a Nov. 27, 2010 game against Oregon State in Stanford, Calif. That was part of a seven-year stretch in which Stanford posted the fourth-best record in the nation at 76-18 and qualified for five BCS bowl berths under Harbaugh and David Shaw. But the Cardinal have struggled for success in recent years and haven't won more than four games in a season since 2018. Stanford just finished its fourth straight 3-9 campaign in Taylor's second season since replacing Shaw. The Cardinal are the only power conference team to lose at least nine games in each of the past four seasons. Luck graduated from Stanford with a bachelor’s degree in architectural design and returned after retiring from the NFL to get his master’s degree in education in 2023. He was picked No. 1 overall by Indianapolis in the 2012 draft and made four Pro Bowls and was AP Comeback Player of the Year in 2018 in his brief but successful NFL career. Before the 2023 National Football League season started, it seemed inevitable that Bill Belichick would end his career as the winningest head coach in league history. He had won six Super Bowls with the New England Patriots and 298 regular-season games, plus 31 playoff games, across his career. Then the 2023 season happened. Belichick's Patriots finished 4-13, the franchise's worst record since 1992. At the end of the year, Belichick and New England owner Robert Kraft agreed to part ways. And now, during the 2024 season, Belichick is on the sideline. He's 26 wins from the #1 spot, a mark he'd reach in little more than two seasons if he maintained his .647 career winning percentage. Will he ascend the summit? It's hard to tell. Belichick would be 73 if he graced the sidelines next season—meaning he'd need to coach until at least 75 to break the all-time mark. Only one other NFL coach has ever helmed a team at age 73: Romeo Crennel in 2020 for the Houston Texans. With Belichick's pursuit of history stalled, it's worth glancing at the legends who have reached the pinnacle of coaching success. Who else stands among the 10 winningest coaches in NFL history? Stacker ranked the coaches with the most all-time regular-season wins using data from Pro Football Reference . These coaches have combined for 36 league championships, which represents 31.6% of all championships won throughout the history of pro football. To learn who made the list, keep reading. You may also like: Ranking the biggest NFL Draft busts of the last 30 years - Seasons coached: 23 - Years active: 1981-2003 - Record: 190-165-2 - Winning percentage: .535 - Championships: 0 Dan Reeves reached the Super Bowl four times—thrice with the Denver Broncos and once with the Atlanta Falcons—but never won the NFL's crown jewel. Still, he racked up nearly 200 wins across his 23-year career, including a stint in charge of the New York Giants, with whom he won Coach of the Year in 1993. In all his tenures, he quickly built contenders—the three clubs he coached were a combined 17-31 the year before Reeves joined and 28-20 in his first year. However, his career ended on a sour note as he was fired from a 3-10 Falcons team after Week 14 in 2003. - Seasons coached: 23 - Years active: 1969-91 - Record: 193-148-1 - Winning percentage: .566 - Championships: 4 Chuck Noll's Pittsburgh Steelers were synonymous with success in the 1970s. Behind his defense, known as the Steel Curtain, and offensive stars, including Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, and Lynn Swann, Noll led the squad to four Super Bowl victories from 1974 to 1979. Noll's Steelers remain the lone team to win four Super Bowls in six years, though Andy Reid and Kansas City could equal that mark if they win the Lombardi Trophy this season. Noll was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993, two years after retiring. His legacy of coaching success has carried on in Pittsburgh—the club has had only two coaches (Bill Cowher and Mike Tomlin) since Noll retired. - Seasons coached: 21 - Years active: 1984-98, 2001-06 - Record: 200-126-1 - Winning percentage: .613 - Championships: 0 As head coach of Cleveland, Kansas City, Washington, and San Diego, Marty Schottenheimer proved a successful leader during the regular season. Notably, he was named Coach of the Year after turning around his 4-12 Chargers team to a 12-4 record in 2004. His teams, however, struggled during the playoffs. Schottheimer went 5-13 in the postseason, and he never made it past the conference championship round. As such, the Pennsylvania-born skipper is the winningest NFL coach never to win a league championship. - Seasons coached: 25 - Years active: 1946-62, '68-75 - Record: 213-104-9 - Winning percentage: .672 - Championships: 7 The only coach on this list to pilot a college team, Paul Brown, reached the pro ranks after a three-year stint at Ohio State and two years with the Navy during World War II. He guided the Cleveland Browns—named after Brown, their first coach—to four straight titles in the fledgling All-America Football Conference. After the league folded, the ballclub moved to the NFL in 1950, and Cleveland continued its winning ways, with Brown leading the team to championships in '50, '54, and '55. He was fired in 1963 but returned in 1968 as the co-founder and coach of the Cincinnati Bengals. His other notable accomplishments include helping to invent the face mask and breaking pro football's color barrier . - Seasons coached: 33 - Years active: 1921-53 - Record: 226-132-22 - Winning percentage: .631 - Championships: 6 An early stalwart of the NFL, Curly Lambeau spent 29 years helming the Green Bay Packers before wrapping up his coaching career with two-year stints with the Chicago Cardinals and Washington. His Packers won titles across three decades, including the league's first three-peat from 1929-31. Notably, he experienced only one losing season during his first 27 years with Green Bay, cementing his legacy of consistent success. Born in Green Bay, Lambeau co-founded the Packers and played halfback on the team from 1919-29. He was elected to the Hall of Fame as a coach and owner in 1963, two years before his death. You may also like: Countries with the most active NFL players - Seasons coached: 29 - Years active: 1960-88 - Record: 250-162-6 - Winning percentage: .607 - Championships: 2 The first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Tom Landry held the position for his entire 29-year tenure as an NFL coach. The Cowboys were especially dominant in the 1970s when they made five Super Bowls and won the big game twice. Landry was known for coaching strong all-around squads and a unit that earned the nickname the "Doomsday Defense." Between 1966 and 1985, Landry and his Cowboys enjoyed 20 straight seasons with a winning record. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1990. - Seasons coached: 26 - Years active: 1999-present - Record: 267-145-1 - Winning percentage: .648 - Championships: 3 The only active coach in the top 10, Andy Reid has posted successful runs with both the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City. After reaching the Super Bowl once in 14 years with the Eagles, Reid ratcheted things up with K.C., winning three titles since 2019. As back-to-back defending champions, Reid and Co. are looking this season to become the first franchise to three-peat in the Super Bowl era and the third to do so in NFL history after the Packers of 1929-31 and '65-67. Time will tell if Reid and his offensive wizardry can lead Kansas City to that feat. - Seasons coached: 29 - Years active: 1991-95, 2000-23 - Record: 302-165 - Winning percentage: .647 - Championships: 6 The most successful head coach of the 21st century, Bill Belichick first coached the Cleveland Browns before taking over the New England Patriots in 2000. With the Pats, Belichick combined with quarterback Tom Brady to win six Super Bowls in 18 years. Belichick and New England split after last season when the Patriots went 4-13—the worst record of Belichick's career. His name has swirled around potential coaching openings , but nothing has come of it. Belichick has remained in the media spotlight with his regular slot on the "Monday Night Football" ManningCast. - Seasons coached: 40 - Years active: 1920-29, '33-42, '46-55, '58-67 - Record: 318-148-31 - Winning percentage: .682 - Championships: 6 George Halas was the founder and longtime owner of the Chicago Bears and coached the team across four separate stints. Nicknamed "Papa Bear," he built the ballclub into one of the NFL's premier franchises behind players such as Bronko Nagurski and Sid Luckman. Halas also played for the team, competing as a player-coach in the 1920s. The first coach to study opponents via game film, he was once a baseball player and even made 12 appearances as a member of the New York Yankees in 1919. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1963 as both a coach and owner. - Seasons coached: 33 - Years active: 1963-95 - Record: 328-156-6 - Winning percentage: .677 - Championships: 2 The winningest head coach in NFL history is Don Shula, who first coached the Baltimore Colts (losing Super Bowl III to Joe Namath and the New York Jets) for seven years before leading the Miami Dolphins for 26 seasons. With the Fins, Shula won back-to-back Super Bowls in 1972 and 1973, a run that included a 17-0 season—the only perfect campaign in NFL history. He also coached quarterback great Dan Marino in the 1980s and '90s, but the pair made it to a Super Bowl just once. Shula was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997. Story editing by Mike Taylor. Copy editing by Robert Wickwire. Photo selection by Lacy Kerrick. You may also like: The 5 biggest upsets of the 2023-24 NFL regular season Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!

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The morning catch up: ASX to slip as markets around the world endure volatilityRupert Murdoch and ABC chair Kim Williams (Image: PA/AAP) As Australia’s media staggers into the summer silly season, legacy media is fighting the last battles of the bruising traffic wars of the twenty-teens as it restructures programming, repositions products and reshuffles personalities. But here’s the good news: while the media is struggling, journalists are getting better, diving in, looking for solutions as they adjust to the big challenges of what’s been tagged the global polycrisis. It’s the coming of deep journalism. In legacy media, meanwhile, the hammer of their intellectual and organisational investment in the priority of audience growth is banging away at what passes for news in the Australian cycle: political and celebrity gossip, leavened with polls, crime, car crashes and natural disasters. Oh and don’t forget the perennial culture wars outrage (why, just this past weekend, here’s the latest on Australia Day !). ‘As vicious as anything I had ever seen’: Robert Manne on being News Corp’s target Read More It’s all part of the hunt for the elusive “traffic”: those unique visitor numbers that can be monetised through whatever advertising dollars Google’s monopoly on ad tech allows to slip through. The ABC, too, has fallen for the traffic lure, with its decade-long remaking of its managerial team so that it possesses a more commercial bent. These hires are suits with a lifetime of training to see audience aggregation through a lens of light programming, inoffensive personalities and bland news judgment all marked “largely harmless”. Too late. Looks like the always mythical mass audience is done with being pushed and pulled across increasingly marginal viral offerings dressed up as news. The media’s relentless doubling down on the trivialisation of the gossip framing no matter the subject doesn’t grow audiences. It drives them away. It’s why the latest big headache for legacy news media isn’t (or isn’t just) misinformation. It’s news avoidance. According to the 2024 Digital News Report released by the University of Canberra, about two-thirds of Australians actively avoid news, worn out by “news fatigue”. There’s more figures buried in News Corp’s latest financial report to its US regulator, that show what people aren’t reading: the company’s still un-paywalled tabloids. Monthly unique visitors to London’s The Sun (the paper that claimed to win elections back in the 1990s) have slumped from 140 million in 2021 to just 80 million this year. It must get worse for News Corp’s managers when they look at what people are reading, like the record global hard-back sales of Spare , the memoir-cum-tabloid critique by the company’s continuing legal foe, Price Harry. His book says of Rupert Murdoch: “I couldn’t think of a single human being in the 300,000-year history of the species who’d done more damage to our collective sense of reality.” Commercial media have been working hard to pivot away from the hard grind of digital ads towards reader subscriptions. Early stay-at-home COVID saw a surge, but growth has stagnated — or fallen, as The Washington Post found in October when its subscriptions dropped 10% after it took the play-safe route of declining to endorse a presidential candidate. The cycle of daily reporting — the one thing after another that mass media were built to serve — no longer meets the challenges of the moment that historian Adam Tooze has popularised as the “polycrisis” — the complex interaction of climate emergency, mass movements of peoples, the collapse of the neo-liberal growth model, and the war(s) on (and for) democracy. ‘Deeply repulsive’: ABC chair Kim Williams rails against Joe Rogan amid pitch for greater funding Read More As the cheap hits of the viral cycle fade and paywalled subscriptions stall, audiences are looking elsewhere, curating their own news feed from multiple, varied sources, fracturing the solidity of once traditional habits of news consumption. As the Digital News Report highlights, news consumers are looking for news that “helps me learn”, “keeps me engaged”. News that merely entertains? That ranks last. Legacy media — as the ABC and the free-to-air networks alike are finding — can no longer rely on the traditional loyalty of audiences to keep coming back because there isn’t anything else on offer. Instead, news-hungry audiences are embracing the long form to understand what’s going on — from podcasts to YouTube talks, from email Substack newsletters to literary magazines. It’s being fed by new media start-ups, particularly in populations large enough for a small audience to be big enough to get by, like the Vox/NY Mag group in the US, or “ The Rest is ...” podcast range in the UK, or the Digipub network in India. It’s a trend reflected, too, in the subscription numbers. While tabloid media struggle, mastheads that offer deep analysis are thriving. In News Corp, for example, its upmarket mastheads like the London Times , the Wall Street Journal and, yes, even The Australian are building solid audiences for their journalism. That said, Australia’s population size make it a weaker trend here. And that’s the opening for the ABC. The public broadcaster’s strength has historically been built by aggregating often small audiences through discrete offerings (think triple j versus Classic FM). The past decade’s trend to corporate uniformity (like axing The Drum ) may have meant fewer missteps that cause red faces in Senate estimates. But it’s made the corporation more bland — and effectively outsourced too many of its news choices to the judgments of News Corp editors. Late last century, the ABC was able to rejuvenate Australian creativity and production by rethinking itself as a platform for drama by opening itself up to co-productions. By rethinking itself as a platform within the emerging ecosystem of deep journalism, the ABC can do the same today, helping Australians build the media we need, rather than a dull cultural echo of the US information flow. Have something to say about this article? 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