MEAC lifts expansion moratorium, will consider adding N.C. Central

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MEAC lifts expansion moratorium, will consider adding N.C. Central

North Carolina Central's Bryan Ayala drives by Trevor Ferguson of N.C. State in the first half on February 3, 2009.

Feb 23, 2009

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Commissioner Dennis Thomas of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) has announced that the MEAC Council of Chief Executive Officers has ended the moratorium on membership expansion effective immediately.

The moratorium was implemented to provide the conference a planned approach for membership expansion. A strategic and long range plan was developed and approved by the Council.

Using the strategic and long range plan document as a guideline, MEAC expansion will focus on increasing the membership to fourteen members, resulting in twelve (12) football playing institutions.

The MEAC will immediately begin reviewing applications for membership. Currently the MEAC has received and are reviewing applications from North Carolina Central University (Durham) and Savannah (Ga.) State University.

NCCU has been seeking admission into a Division I conference since leaving the CIAA in the fall of 2007.

In the interim, the Eagles have been forced to play a number of away games in basketball in order to fill out their schedule, simply because they do not have the conference games to lean on that most institutions do.