Texas The American Football Coaches Association will break ground on September 15 for a national headquarters building to house the Association's office in Waco, Texas. Ground-breaking ceremonies will begin 10 a.m. on September 15 at the site of the new office on University Parks Drive just northwest of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. AFCA Executive Director Grant Teaff, area high school and college coaches and dignitaries from the City of Waco and Downtown Waco, Inc. will be on hand for the ceremony, which is open to the public.
Parking is available at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.
The office was relocated to Waco from Orlando, Fla. when former Baylor Head Coach Grant Teaff was chosen to replace Charlie McClendon as the AFCA's executive director in 1994. For nearly 80 years, the AFCA has been a very strong entity in college athletics. In recent years, our Association has taken on a national prominence that has led to dramatic growth in membership and staff size. My feeling, and the feeling of our Board of Trustees, is that we have reached the point where we need some permanence for our headquarters. At the 2000 AFCA Convention in January, the Association's Board of Trustees discussed the idea of building a national headquarters in Waco.