NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana -- Southern University’s football
team took interim head coach Dawson Odums on a thrilling
roller-coaster ride of a game in Saturday’s 39th Bayou Classic. He’d like to do it
all again next year.Led by junior quarterback Dray Joseph, from West St. John High, and two St. Augustine graduates, receivers Charles Hawkins and Lee Doss, Southern salvaged a bit of their disappointing season with a 38-33 season-finale victory against Grambling in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome before an announced crowd of 45,980.
The Jaguars got down 14-0, rallied with a 38-6 run engineered by Joseph then had to hold their breath at the end when Grambling had a chance to drive for the winning score.
“I just feel that I want to be
the head coach at Southern University and these young men showed why they like
my leadership (on Saturday),’’ said Odums, who was named interim coach in
September when head coach Stump Mitchell
was reassigned after an 0-2 start. “They play hard and for 60 minutes. But I
know it’s not my call. Whatever happens we’ll be estatic about it either way
because we know put our best foot forward to make these young men better.’’
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