Saturday, July 27, 2013

Southern’s Dray Joseph: ‘We all can make this journey’

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama  --  Southern’s players jokingly chide Dray Joseph after the senior utters a line during summer workouts.

As they pant and sweat under the sweltering sun, the senior quarterback will offer a refrain borrowed from a familiar source.

“We all can make this journey,” he says.

Chuckling and smiling, his fellow Jaguars offer a quick retort: “You sound just like Coach Odums.”



Relaying the anecdote to coach Dawson Odums, he only offers up a contended grin at the mind meld taking place to help Joseph evolve from the Southwestern Athletic Conference’s best passer into a field general mastering a West Coast scheme as the Jaguars try to end a stretch of three consecutive losing seasons.

“It’s great to see the leadership he’s displaying on and off the field,” Odums said Monday during SWAC Media Day. “It’s a tough position, and you want to be accepted as an individual, but it takes a quarterback to say, ‘I’m not really like everybody else.’ He’s accepted that pressure.”

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