Georgetown prepared for Bengals training camp

Bengals will decide on training camp in Kentucky by Friday.

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By Joe Kay, Associated Press 8:35 PM Wednesday, July 20, 2011

CINCINNATI — The Bengals will decide by Friday whether to hold the first few weeks of training camp in Georgetown, Ky.

The staff at Georgetown College has made most of the preparations to host the Bengals for the 15th year in a row, Athletic Director Brian Evans told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The original schedule calls for players to report on July 28th, and hold their first workout the next day.

“We talk fairly regularly,” Evans said, in a phone interview. “We’re hoping to hear something by Friday to make a decision about training camp, a mutual decision at that point.”

The Bengals could hold camp at Paul Brown Stadium, where they have adjacent practice fields, but prefer to go out of town. Before moving to Georgetown in 1997, they held camp at Wilmington College.

Before the NFL locked out the players, the Bengals planned to hold the first three weeks of camp in Georgetown, which is about 90 miles south of Cincinnati. The staff at Georgetown has prepared the dormitories where players stay. “We went on and prepared as though they’re coming, so we could mobilize pretty quickly,” Evans said.

The Bengals are waiting to see if players and owners reach a labor agreement in the next two days, ending the NFL’s first work stoppage since 1987.

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