When Andrew Luck decided Stanford needed to change its head football coach at an unusual time in late March, he turned to a familiar face.

Stanford fired football coach Troy Taylor on Tuesday, less than a week after an ESPN report revealed that Taylor had twice been the subject of third-party investigations into complaints from athletic department employees over hostile behavior.

Frank Reich, who lasted only 11 games as the Carolina Panthers’ head coach, has a new opportunity as Stanford’s interim head coach. But no matter how he does under Stanford general manager Andrew Luck,