GAME TIME: 1 PM, TV: ESPN3JACKSONVILLE, Florida -- Though Jacksonville University (FCS) and Edward Waters (NAIA) play in different classifications, the two have met on the football field once before. In 2002, JU won 44-31.
The two coaches faced each other five years later, when Kerwin Bell, in his first game at JU, played at Bethune-Cookman, coached by Alvin Wyatt. The Wildcats and Wyatt won 31-17. Bell hasn’t forgotten.
“He [Wyatt] taught me a lot of things, mostly how well he dresses, on and off the sidelines,’’ Bell said with a smile. “It was a great education to college football. There were well-coached and they beat us.’’
Times have changed since that 2007 game. Bell is still at JU, and has built the most successful program in school history. The Dolphins are 5-0 and one of eight undefeated teams remaining in the FCS, though ineligible for postseason play due to sanctions imposed by the Pioneer League because of improper financial aid benefits.
Wyatt, the winningest coach in Bethune-Cookman football history, took over the struggling Edward Waters program in 2013 and is taking his lumps. The Tigers (2-5) have lost five games in a row by a combined score of 261-48.
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