Former Cowboys head coach and Giants offensive coordinator Jason Garrett has emerged as a serious candidate to become the next head coach at Stanford, as first reported by The Athletic‘s Stewart Mandel.
On the heels of that report, sources told Sports Illustrated‘s Pat Forde that Garrett was on Stanford’s campus in Palo Alto on Thursday and that the plan is to conclude the coaching search this week.
Garrett has never held a head coaching job at the college level, and is best recognized for his run as the Dallas’s coach for 10 seasons in the NFL, where he went 85–67 overall with three playoff appearances.