The NCAA News - News and Features

April 14, 1997

Headquarters list narrowed to Kansas City, Indy

A working group reviewing options for location of the NCAA headquarters has narrowed its search to the Kansas City metropolitan area and Indianapolis as potential sites for the Association's national office.

The decision was made April 7 by the working group of college presidents and athletics administrators that has been heading the NCAA 2000 headquarters project for nearly a year.

The decision eliminates Denver and Dallas/Fort Worth, two of the cities under consideration by the NCAA since December, when a list of 10 communities was reduced to four.

"I want to express the Association's sincere thanks to Denver and Dallas/ Fort Worth for all the hard work they have put into this project," NCAA Executive Director Cedric W. Dempsey said. "Through our visits with each of these communities, we have learned again why they are consistently among the top cities in the country as business locations."

He noted that the working group, which met in a telephone conference Monday afternoon, reviewed the proposals and responses to follow-up questions from the NCAA from all four communities. The group concluded that the financial ramifications of relocating to either of those two cities would not allow the organization to meet one of its long-term objectives of reducing the cost of operating its headquarters facility.

The teleconference came at the end of a day-long meeting of the NCAA staff project team, representatives of Arthur Andersen Consulting and University of Tulsa President Robert Lawless, chair of the working group.

Other members of the group are Charles S. Boone, athletics director, University of Richmond, former Executive Committee member; David G. Carter, president, Eastern Connecticut State University, Presidents Commission Division III chair; Lynn L. Dorn, director of women's athletics, North Dakota State University, Division II vice-president; and Milton A. Gordon, president, California State University, Fullerton, Presidents Commission vice-chair.

There also are three ex officio members: Samuel H. Smith, president, Washington State University, Presidents Commission chair; Eugene F. Corrigan, commissioner, Atlantic Coast Conference, NCAA president; and Phyllis L. Howlett, assistant commissioner, Big Ten Conference, NCAA secretary-treasurer.