Report: DePauw will not host Colts camp

Friday, March 3, 2017

In the sweepstakes to host Colts training camp this summer, DePauw finds itself with no Luck.

As first reported by Indianapolis Star Colts beat writer Stephen Holder Friday afternoon, the Colts will conduct training camp at its 56th Street team headquarters on the northwest side of Indianapolis.

DePauw University had been rumored as a leading candidate to host quarterback Andrew Luck and the Colts since it was announced in late January that the team would not conduct camp at Anderson University.

Although the DePauw plans never came to fruition, the university was apparently a serious candidate, according to Holder’s reporting.

“They were very close to an agreement with DePauw University in Greencastle before abruptly backing out,” Holder reported on Twitter.

The Star reporter said he did not know why the negotiations stalled.

Speculation has been that new Colts General Manager Chris Ballard wished to keep training camp at the Colts Complex.

Practices at the complex will not be open to the public, per Holder, but there will be public practices at an alternate site. Details of these sessions are forthcoming.

DePauw finds itself a bridesmaid for the Colts’ hand for a second time, having been a finalist in 1999 when the team settled on Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute as the host site.

The Colts Complex will be only the third site of training camp since the franchise moved to Indianapolis in 1984.

Anderson played host from 1984 through 1998 and again from 2010 to 2016. Rose-Hulman hosted the team for 11 seasons from 1999 through 2009.

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