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 actually taking time out of his day to teach me something.

“That moment stuck with me — his humility, his service, his belief in lifting up the people around him.”

And now they’re back on the same team. Luck, now Stanford’s general manager, introduced Pritchard as the 37th head coach in program history on Tuesday, completing an eight-month coaching sear

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