Stanford football has made a master move toward the persisting void in the head coach room for a week. The program fired the former head coach, Troy Taylor, after a serious allegation of bullying and belittling female athletic staffers broke the internet. An NCAA investigation is underway as the anonymous female athletes (who brought the charge) sought prompt action. However, meanwhile, the Cardinals needed to have a solution for the coveted HC post. Although they couldn’t find a permanent name for the deal, they made a strategic jump to hire veteran NFL coach Frank Reich as the interim head coach of the school. Reich, 63, is widely expected to bring the program back to its prime, even if he has only one year at hand. Let’s dive into the new Stanford bayonet’s spouse and family!

What is Linda Reich’s background?

“The unique responsibility to mentor the best student-athletes in the world, to be the absolute best in what they aspire to do, is an opportunity I will fully embrace,” Reich said in an inaugural statement right after penning the deal. However, his hiring didn’t come out of the blue. Stanford football general manager Andrew Luck had an instrumental role to play in it. Luck knows the class Reich has as a coach. Thanks to his final NFL season (2018) under Frank’s stewardship at Indianapolis. When it called for an emergency decision after Taylor’s unforeseen dismissal, Luck couldn’t think of any name other than his former pro coach. Frank, on the other hand, takes on a greater responsibility to live up to that faith. But with a supportive wife and family by his side, rest assured, he can do it.

Frank had the relentless love and endorsement of his wife, Linda, as they spent a few decades together under a roof. To know Coach Frank interpersonally, you must take a sneak peek at his better half.

Back in 1987, the couple tied the knot and never looked back. They were childhood sweethearts, spending a chunk of their formative years in Charlotte, North Carolina. Then, they went their separate ways to complete graduation from their respective high schools before reuniting in the state again.

The vintage love story eventually turned into wedded bliss and the beginning of their parenthood, with three beautiful kids (all are adults now): Lia, Aviry, and Hannah.

What does Linda Reich do?

Looking back at Linda’s career, the lady has walked hand in hand with her husband in terms of professional success. She used to be a philanthropist and a cheerleader at Cedar Crest High School. She now serves society alongside her husband, Frank Reich, as the president and co-founder of KNot Today.

The Indiana-based NGO aims to “generate awareness, initiate prevention strategies, and assist in the development of innovative healing programs for sexually abused and exploited children,” as mentioned on their website bio.

What is her family life like?

Linda and Frank have been together since the present head coach of the Cardinals was pursuing a career in football in Buffalo. He had played for 14 seasons in the NFL before moving on to coaching offers. Linda, like an ideal friend and partner, has seen the rigorous journey of her beau from being a QB to an established pro coach and now the abrupt yet beautiful transition to college football. She has been stuck like glue with him for all of it, for the sweet, for the sour, and everything in between.

Their family is no longer confined to five of them (three kids). It extended to their kids’ respective spouses and the most beloved and junior member of the Reichs’ Bishop, Lia’s child. As the heads of a big family, the couple understands that the key to maintaining balance and happiness inside the family is sound mental health.

They have worked together to spearhead a focus on healing and taking care of one’s mental health through a joint initiative alongside the Colts and the Irsay family. They have launched Kicking the Stigma, a comprehensive program to raise awareness about mental health disorders and say goodbye to any shame and stigma attached to it.

However, moving ahead, we will see how Frank, with a loving and strong family to back him, will turn around the fate of his new school within a limited timeframe.