Chargers complete head coach interview with David Shaw

With 96 wins in his 12 seasons, David Shaw is the winningest coach at Stanford.

The Chargers completed their head coach interview with David Shaw, the team announced on Thursday.

Shaw, 51, previously was Stanford’s head coach from 2011 to 2022, overtaking Jim Harbaugh when he left the school to become the head coach of the 49ers in 2011.

In 12 seasons at Stanford, Shaw had a 96-54 record. He had three Pac-12 conference titles and two Rose Bowl wins.

Shaw and Harbaugh have ties that go back to 2006. That year, Shaw was Harbaugh’s offensive coordinator at the University of San Diego. In 2007, Shaw followed Harbaugh to Stanford in the same role until 2010.

Shaw has NFL experience, working as a quality control coach with the Raiders and Eagles. He’s also been the quarterbacks coach with the Raiders and QBs and wide receivers coach with the Ravens.

Before his time in the NFL, Shaw was an outside linebackers coach and tight ends coach at Western Washington.

Bay Area earthquake: Stanford coach David Shaw steps down after season-ending loss

David Shaw would have coached Stanford the next few years if he wanted … but he didn’t want to. Another #Pac12 job opens up.

So, is there anything happening in Pac-12 football right now — you know, other than Arizona State hiring a new head coach, Utah making an improbable last-minute run to the Pac-12 Championship Game, USC coming within one win of the College Football Playoff, Oregon collapsing in remarkable fashion against Oregon State, Colorado offering Deion Sanders its head coaching position, Washington winning 10 games under Kalen DeBoer, and Oregon State going 9-3 essentially without a functioning quarterback?

Man, what a time.

In addition to all the other big, headline-grabbing news stories in the conference, a huge one broke overnight while you were either sleeping or celebrating USC’s win over Notre Dame: Stanford football coach David Shaw decided to step down.

Let’s go through the many dimensions of this story and what it means: