BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- Just a few days after securing its first conference title in 10 years, the Southern football program secured its leader for the foreseeable future Thursday by agreeing to a three-year contract extension with coach Dawson Odums.
Odums had received interest from his alma mater, North Carolina Central. But, with a hefty raise coming his way, Odums decided to remain with the Jaguars after, in his first full season, he led them to a 9-4 record and a 34-27 double-overtime win over Jackson State in the SWAC title game.
The news of Odums’ decision came as a positive for the coaching staff, current players, incoming recruits and Athletic Director William Broussard.
Broussard said that not only would Southern benefit from retaining the North Carolina native, but Odums likewise would benefit from staying on The Bluff.
“That is only one tie,” Broussard said of Odums’ connections to North Carolina Central. “There’s more to be considered than the tie to your alma mater. Coach Odums has short-term and long-term aspirations as a football coach. I offered to him that he could achieve those with a better degree of reliability being the head coach of Southern.”
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