Team News - PSAC Expansion

It is well known that the Golden Ram's opening game of the 2012 will be the last against long time rival Delaware. However, 2012 will likely also mark the end of playing LIU-Post as a annual PSAC East contest.

Due to some proposed changes in the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, WVIAC members University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown and Seton Hill were seeking a new conference. As of yesterday, enough PSAC president's voted in favor of inviting UPJ and Seton Hill to join the PSAC as full members. If both schools accept the invitations as they are expected to, the PSAC would expand to a total of 18 schools as early as the 2013-2014 school year.

Of the two new schools, only Seton Hill offers football which would create an imbalance in the number of football teams in the conference. As such, Seton Hill, located in Greensburg, will be added to the PSAC West, Lock Haven would move from the PSAC West to the PSAC East, and LIU-Post, who is an associate member of the PSAC for football and field hockey only, would no longer participate in the PSAC for football. However, with the Delaware series coming to an end means that West Chester has an open date on the schedule to fill in 2013. It is certainly conceivable that LIU-Post could fill that void thus providing the Golden Rams with a formidable Division II "in-region" opponent.

LIU-Post, formerly C.W. Post, joined the PSAC in 2008 as an associate member in football and field hockey. In football, they filled the conference void created when Mansfield abruptly dropped football after the 2006 season. West Chester has split the four games played with the Pioneers in that time:

• 2008 West Chester 17 - C.W. Post 7 at West Chester
  
• 2009 West Chester 34 - C.W. Post 26 at C.W. Post
  
• 2010 C.W. Post 39 - West Chester 37 (3OT) at West Chester
  
• 2011 C.W. Post 34 - West Chester 23 at C.W. Post
  

Prior to LIU-Post joining the PSAC, the Golden Rams and the Pioneers squared off twice in the NCAA Division II playoffs, splitting those two contests:

• 2004 West Chester 35 - C.W. Post 3 at West Chester
  
• 2005 C.W. Post 24 - West Chester 20 at C.W. Post
  

Seton Hill's first season of football was 2006 and, despite not winning the WVIAC, the Griffins qualified for the NCAA Division II playoffs in 2008. They have gone 4-29 in the three seasons since then though.

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