B-CU eyes big time, to play Miami in 2011, 2012; UCF in 2013

DAYTONA BEACH, FL -- Bethune-Cookman University's Wildcats have never scheduled one of college football's top-tier teams, and now that they're starting, they're not exactly dipping their toes in the water.

Athletics Director Lynn Thompson confirmed Monday the Wildcats will play the University of Miami -- one of the nation's most storied football programs -- in 2011 and 2012 and renew an old rivalry against another Division I Football Bowl Subdivision team, the University of Central Florida, in 2013.

"If you're going to swim with fish in the open ocean, you might as well swim with whales," Thompson said. "When we started looking at guarantee games, our intent was to get the best opponent we could play." They'll also haul in a whale of a payout.

Thompson said the three games will generate "well over a million dollars" for the university. Thompson confirmed the 'Cats received the going rate from the Hurricanes. Florida Championship Subdivision schools like B-CU have been receiving about $400,000 to $500,000 from Bowl Championship Series schools in recent years. Delaware State, another MEAC school, collected $550,000 to play at Michigan last season.

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Sports information directors worth their weight in info

Bryan Harvey has a new gig. Now most of you are probably going "Bryan who?" Harvey is the soon-to-be departed sports information director at Bethune-Cookman, a historically black university in Daytona Beach, Florida. N.C. Central fans may remember Harvey as an assistant to current SID Kyle Serba a few years ago. (He had a good teacher.) You only had to meet Bryan one time to know he was destined for good things.

Harvey left NCCU, which was Division II at the time, for an assistant SID job at Hampton. He left there to head his own ship at B-CU, where’s he’s been for the last three years. On Aug. 1, he will become an assistant SID at Miami. There he will cover the Hurricanes volleyball, swimming & diving, women’s rowing and women’s tennis programs. He will also assist at home football games and be the secondary contact for men’s basketball.

You know that old saying, "You don't miss the water till the well runs dry?" Well, the Wildcats are going to be dying of thirst when Harvey leaves.

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