BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- After a disappointing start to the season, Southern coach Dawson Odums and his Jaguars football team are left with more questions than answers.
The Jaguars, who lost to Houston in the opener 62-13 and Saturday 55-14 to Northwestern State, open Southwestern Athletic Conference play this weekend at home against Prairie View.
The two disappointing losses would lead most coaches to wonder if the philosophies they are using are the correct strategies.
“The Northwestern State game was pretty bad,” Odums said. “We didn’t play well in all phases of the football game.”
Southern rushed for a mere 61 yards on 35 carries and surrendered 554 total yards of offense to the Demons.
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Monday morning rewind: Southern
Coming Up
Prairie View, which visits Southern at 6 p.m. Saturday, is 1-1 after losing Saturday to Texas State 28-3. The Panthers, who are undefeated in the SWAC at 1-0, have long since turned the pages since suffering through an 80-game losing streak from 1989-1998 — the longest streak in college football. The Jaguars are looking to bounce back from two horrifying losses in the team’s conference and home opener for the 2013 season.
Looking Back
On six of the first seven possessions of a 55-14 loss Saturday at Northwestern State, the Jaguars elected to run the ball on the first play from scrimmage on each drive, netting a total of 5 yards.
Coach Dawson Odums hinted in his postgame news conference there could be a change of philosophy in the Jaguars’ offensive approach from this point on.
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