The Coaches Meetings in Florida continues in Marco Island. Bemidji State is slated to make their presentation to the WCHA at these meetings.

It’s not expected that the WCHA will vote an BSU’s application this week. It’s thought by many that the league will wait until another team applies to the league…thus giving the WCHA their desired 12 team league.

Adam Woodon from “College Hockey News” had this to say on the matter.

The “New York Times” has this to say:

Bemidji State Will Plead Its Case to W.C.H.A.
By Pat Borzi

Monday is a big day for the Bemidji State men’s hockey program, which needs a new home with the impending demise of its conference, College Hockey America.

That’s when Bemidji’s delegation, led by president Jon Quistgaard and renowned former coach R.H. “Bob” Peters, makes its formal presentation to join the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (W.C.H.A.) at the conference’s spring meeting in Marco Island, Fla. W.C.H.A. faculty reps could vote on admission as early as Tuesday –- eight of the 10 member schools must approve it — or postpone the vote for another time, according to W.C.H.A. spokesman Doug Spencer.

Admission would be for the 2010-11 season. The four-team College Hockey America will dissolve after next season with Robert Morris and Niagara leaving to join Atlantic Hockey.

In the Beavers’ favor: BSU moves into a new, larger arena in the fall of 2010, and Bemidji is within a drive or a short flight of seven W.C.H.A. schools.

Possible snags: No other schools applied by the March 31 deadline. Twelve teams are easier to schedule for conference play than 11.

Nebraska-Omaha Coach Mike Kemp said in January that the W.C.H.A. approached his school and Northern Michigan about joining the conference. (W.C.H.A. Commissioner Bruce McLeod has denied this.) Kemp indicated the Mavs weren’t interested in leaving the Central Collegiate Hockey Conference (C.C.H.A.).

But Nebraska-Omaha athletic director David Miller resigned on March 30. Might a new AD have other ideas? Trev Alberts, the ex-Nebraska football star and former ESPN commentator, is one of the four finalists, according to the Omaha World-Herald.