During his sixteen years (1965–1980 and 1982–83) as head coach of Grand Canyon College in Phoenix, Arizona, he accumulated a 317–137 (.698) record and won two NAIA championships.

Lindsey attended Phoenix Union High School for two years where he was a three sport letterman (football, basketball and baseball).

Lindsey was hired by GCC Athletic Director, Dave Brazell, as the Head Basketball Coach in the Spring of 1965.

As part of his GCC job, he had to teach 12 hours of classes (e.g., archery, golf, and kinesiology) per semester and also coached the tennis team.

Conference tournament champion Lindsey was hired by Fort Hays State in Kansas in 1982 to a four-year contract, with the understanding that he would be released from it if he was offered and accepted the University of Arizona head coaching job.

He inherited a 9–18 team from the prior season, and had just lost its best player (Jeff Collins) via transfer to UNLV.

Lindsey remains the only native Arizonan ever to be hired as a head coach in basketball or football at the three state universities.

[6] He was succeeded by Lute Olson, formerly the head coach at Iowa in the Big Ten Conference for nine seasons.