What was supposed to be a competitive game between a surging Wildcat squad and an injury-riddle Rattler unit soon turned into little more than padded distortion for the Marching 100 and the Marching Wildcats’ halftime show. By the time Bethune-Cookman looked around, the Florida A&M Rattlers had hung 28 points on the Wildcats and had predictably assumed control of the annual Florida Classic.
Embarrassing doesn’t begin to describe the output or the season for Bethune-Cookman. The Wildcats ending the season with the same kind of lethargic offense and same kind of turnovers with which they began it is almost too ironic for description. And the inept offense was just the beginning of the trouble for BC.
No Curtis Pulley, no problem for the Rattlers. Third-string redshirt freshman Martin Ukpai looked like a Pulley stunt double against the porous Wildcat defense. Running with purpose, passing with precision, BC was totally hapless against the Rattler rushing onslaught, which struck for nearly 300 rushing yards.
If there is a silver lining to the event, it’s that few Cookman supporters were around to see it.
