SI on Andrew Luck, the scholar-athlete

Missed during the week following Commencement was an article in the June 13 issue of Sports Illustrated about ANDREW LUCK – the student. While the article does talk about Luck’s jaw-dropping skills on the football field, it’s his academic chops that get significant attention.

Take for example this quote from Luck’s adviser in the architectural design program, JOHN BARTON: “We were sitting in front of the computer,” [Barton] recalls, “and I watched him juggling whole layers. He was seeing it in three dimensions – the program integrated with the architecture, the material integrated with the structure. He has a gift for seeing all these pieces at once, breaking them apart and putting them back together again. And I thought, that’s what he can do on the field.”

The article goes on: “As a very bright person with an exceptional talent, Luck is very much the rule on campus, rather than the exception. He is among his peers. ‘Actually,’ [Luck] says, ‘I’d say I’m on the low end of the totem pole.'”

Sounds like a typical quote from the self-effacing student-athlete.