Former B-CU football coach Alvin Wyatt awarded $771,000.00

COACH ALVIN WYATT

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida  — Alvin Wyatt, who won more football games than any other Bethune-Cookman University coach, was awarded nearly $771,000 because the university breached his contract after it fired him in 2009, a judge ruled Wednesday.

The university fired Wyatt, now 65, two days after the Florida Classic, when the Wildcats suffered a 42-6 defeat to their archrival, Florida A&M. He was replaced by Brian Jenkins, then 39.
 

B-CU paid Wyatt his $95,000 salary until June 30, 2010, but his contract called for payments to continue another four years, Circuit Judge Terence R. Perkins ruled.

 

Wyatt had sued for $1.2 million. But the judge wrote that age discrimination, as alleged by Wyatt, was not proven, saying the coach provided “not a shred of evidence” of a discriminatory motive on the part of former President Trudie Kibbe Reed.
 

Pete Heebner, one of two Daytona Beach attorneys who represented ...

 

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Wyatt wins lawsuit against B-CU

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida  --  Former Bethune Cookman-University head football coach Alvin “Shine” Wyatt, Sr. won his breach of contract lawsuit against the Daytona Beach-based school and has been awarded almost $770,000. The decision was announced Wednesday after a non-jury trial that concluded May 17.

 

Wyatt’s case was just one of 13 state and federal lawsuits and administrative complaints filed in less than two years against the school – and personally against former B-CU President Trudie Kibbe Reed – as indicated in a nine-part investigative series published from June through September 2011 in the Florida Courier entitled “Crisis at B-CU.”

There were legal actions filed by longtime professors, the former men’s basketball head coach, former football head coach Wyatt, and a former student who said she was raped by a group of basketball players and that the university tried to cover it up.

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