Oliver Luck
Oliver Luck was born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States on April 5th, 1960 and is the Football Player. At the age of 64, Oliver Luck biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Oliver Francis Luck (born April 5, 1960) is an American business executive and former football quarterback.
He is currently the CEO and Commissioner of the XFL.
He was Director of Intercollegiate Athletes at West Virginia University (WVU), his alma mater), and an executive with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in charge of the organization's administrative duties prior to that.
Luck is a retired American football player who played five seasons in the National Football League (NFL) as a quarterback for the Houston Oilers (1982–1986).
He was also the first president and general manager of the Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer (MLS).
The Dynamo championed the MLS Cup in 2006 and 2007. Andrew Luck, the former Indianapolis Colts quarterback, is the father of his son.
Personal life
Andrew, Mary Ellen, Emily, and Addison are three children who live with him. The three oldest are graduates of Stanford University, where Andrew played football and Mary Ellen played volleyball. Addison was attending Morgantown High School when Luck's NCAA debut was announced. In the 2012 NFL Draft, Andrew played quarterback at Stanford and was voted number one overall by the Indianapolis Colts.
Luck was also active as a youth sports coach in addition to his academic interests.
Football career
Luck was a standout quarterback at St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, where he excelled as a standout quarterback. He continued to play quarterback for WVU from 1978 to 1981. Luck had 151 yards passing and five interceptions in his freshman season. He passed for 1,292 yards and eight touchdowns as a sophomore in 1979, but he threw 12 interceptions. He also ran for 407 yards and five touchdowns, including a career-high 120 yards against Tulane.
Luck received first-team Academic All-American honors in his junior season in 1980. Luck's 19 touchdown passes was a school record, though he also added 1,874 yards. He led the Mountaineers to the Peach Bowl in 1981, defeating the Florida Gators by a score of 26–6. Luck threw for a school record 216 completions and 394 attempts to go for his second consecutive season, winning him his 2,448 yards and 16 touchdowns. In a loss to Syracuse that season, he hit career-highs 360 passing yards and a school record 34 completions.
Luck, a three-year starter, completed his education with 43 touchdown passes, 466 completions, and 911 pass attempts. His 5,765 career passing yards currently rank fourth on the all-time school list. In virtually every career passing category, Luck remains ranked in the top ten.
Fortune selected her to be a Rhodes Scholar (but he did not win the scholarship), a National Football Foundation Scholar, and a two-time GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-American who graduated magna cum laude from WVU in 1982. He was named the team MVP in 1980 and 1981, as well as the 1981 Louis D. Meisel Award. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 2000, Luck was inducted into the Academic All-America Hall of Fame.
The Houston Oilers selected Luck as the 44th overall pick in the 1982 NFL Draft, with the Houston Oilers in the second round. After Art Schlichter (4th to Baltimore) and Jim McMahon (5th to Chicago), he was the third quarterback to be drafted. Luck saw no action as a rookie in the 1982 strike-shortened 1982 season. The Oilers inserted him at the starting quarterback position in his second season, after he passed eight touchdowns and 13 interceptions, while the Oilers struggled to a 2–14 record. During the 1982 and 1983 seasons, he was a teammate of fellow quarterback Archie Manning.
Warren Moon, a Canadian Football League veteran, was signed by the Oilers in 1984. For the majority of the year, Luck served as Moon's back-up for the majority of the season. He completed 22 of 36 pass attempts for 256 yards, two of which were touchdown passes with one interception. Luck had some success running the ball, with ten carries for 75 yards and one touchdown.
Luck continued to play back-up to the Moon in 1985 and 1986. In 1985, he threw 100 passes, with 56 of them being touchdowns and two interceptions. Luck's last season in the NFL, he passed for 341 yards with one touchdown and five interceptions.
Post-football career
Luck received a J.D. after retiring from pro football. In 1987, the University of Texas School of Law graduated from the University of Texas School of Law. He obtained a degree with distinction and later accepted a fellowship to investigate the European Union and Germany's legal system. Luck is also a long-serving member of the American Council on Germany. In 1990, he was the Republican nominee for Congress from West Virginia's 2nd congressional district, which included his alma mater, but was defeated by incumbent Democrat Harley O. Donnell. Staggers Jr.'s campaign launched an ethical controversy after his campaign used a mailing list donated by the non-profit Mountaineer Athletic Club to post a photo of him as the WVU's quarterback, as well as a letter from Luck to over 4000 of the club's contributors. Luck's request was discovered by a state ethics commission report, and Luck apologised.
He was named general manager of the Frankfurt Galaxy of the fledgling World League of American Football in 1991. He served for two years before the league was suspended. He became the Rhein Fire's general manager on its return to action in 1995 and was named league president the following year. Luck served as the league's rebranding as NFL Europe began in 2000, with the aim of improving the league's relationship with its parent, the NFL.
Luck was elected Chief Executive Officer of the Houston Sports Authority in 2001. He oversaw the operations of the Harris County Sports Authority, the governmental body established in 1997 to guarantee the operation, construction, and management oversight of the three major sports and entertainment venues in Houston: Minute Maid Park (home of the Houston Texans and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo), Reliant Stadium (home of the Houston Rockets and Rodeo), and the new Downtown multi-purpose arena (home of the Houston Rockets and Comets).
Luck spent more than ten years with the National Football League, where he served as Vice President of Business Development and CEO of NFL Europe prior to joining the Sports Authority. He was named president of the Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer in 2005. Luck worked with the City and County to establish BBVA Compass Stadium, which opened in March 2012 with a lot of fanfare.
Luck was named by West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin to the West Virginia University Board of Governors on June 27, 2008, beginning July 1. Luck was hired as the athletic director of West Virginia University on June 9, 2010. His name emerged two years later as a candidate for the open athletic directorship at Stanford University, where his son Andrew played quarterback and one of his daughters played volleyball. But Luck revealed on May 17, 2012, that he was still at WVU.
During Luck's tenure as head football coach Bill Stewart's departure to the Big 12 Conference; the relocation of baseball coach Greg Van Zant to the school; and the removal of men's golf from the Big East Conference after a 32-year absence; and expanded multi-media rights to IMG in a 12-year contract; and proposed state TIF funding to build Monongalia County Ballpark.
As of October 12, 2012, WVU amended Luck's employment deal, effectively extending his employment contract until 2017.
Luck was one of 13 members unanimously selected by the College Football Playoff Committee on October 14, 2013 to select the four teams to compete in the first College Football Playoff, which was set to take place in 2015.
Luck would assume the position of executive vice president for administrative affairs on December 17, 2014. Luck is in charge of all national office administrative roles, including academics, membership, and enforcement. As part of a major reorganization of his senior workforce, former NCAA president Mark Emmert created the position. Notably, the NCAA headquarters are in Indianapolis, where Andrew lived at the time.
Luck will be the league's Commissioner and CEO on June 5, 2018. After a kick that was possibly "the best launch of a new sports league in the last 30 years, if not ever," the league stopped operations on March 12, 2020, due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. XFL owner Vince McMahon fired Oliver Luck two days before the league filed for bankruptcy on Thursday. On April 21, Luck sued XFL founder Vince McMahon for wrongful termination. "Our shutdown and our bankruptcy filing had nothing to do with anything other than the pandemic," XFL President Jeffrey Pollack said. Our company was operating, our prototype was operating, and we were on our way to a spectacular first season.