Alvin Wyatt takes reins of EWC football program

HEAD COACH ALVIN WYATT, Sr.

JACKSONVILLE, Florida  -- Calling it “a golden opportunity to build a football program at a great university,” Jacksonville native Alvin Wyatt was named the 13th head football coach at Edward Waters College on Tuesday.

Wyatt served as interim head coach at EWC after Brad Bernard was fired on Oct. 22 following an 0-7 start for the Tigers. Wyatt guided the team to a 2-2 record in the final four games of the 2013 season.

He was head coach at Bethune-Cookman from 1997-2009 and compiled a 13-year record of 90-54, the most wins ever recorded by a B-CU coach. He was fired in 2009 after the Wildcats posted a 5-6 record, including a 42-6 loss to archrival Florida A&M in the season finale.

Wyatt was out of coaching for two years until Bernard hired him as the team’s defensive coordinator in 2012.

“This opportunity here today is best for me now. It’s what I’m fitted for,” Wyatt said. “It presents the same type of challenges that I had at Bethune-Cookman because I took over a program that was 2-9, 1-10 a couple times, plus they were on probation and had eight scholarships taken away in each of a four-year-period. We were able to turn that program around in one year.



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