NEW ORLEANS -- When Southern University athletic director William Broussard hired Dawson Odums as the Jaguars football coach in December of 2012, he got a tepid response from Southern fans, he said. Odums, who guided the Jaguars through the majority of the 2012 season as interim coach, didn’t move the meter much with one of the most engaged fan bases in FCS.He had some things working against him, according to Southern faithful, primarily he wasn’t from Louisiana, was not a Jaguar and had never been a head coach at this level.
“I didn’t get a lot of attaboys, didn’t get a lot of high fives to be blunt about it,’’ Broussard said. “I’d say a solid majority of people had questions about the hire. I thought that response was unfair. I thought there were a lot of things both tangible and intangible about Dawson Odums. I thought he cut the profile of a young aspirant head coach who we’re catching at the front end of the success instead of the tail end.’’
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