How will Southern football do when spring football starts Wednesday?

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana  --  The Southern football team returns to practice as the reigning Southwestern Athletic Conference champion Wednesday.

The Jaguars have lost some star power from the 19 seniors on last year’s team, and the statistics can quantify just how much was lost. But Dawson Odums says he begins his second set of spring practices as head coach confident he has everything he needs up and down the roster for Southern to continue to grow as a program.

“It’s all about consistency,” Odums said. “We’re probably the only school in the SWAC to keep all of its coaches. That’s consistency. We just have to continue to get better during the spring. It’s tough on younger players when they have to learn a different defense or a different offense. But when you’re able to be consistent, you get better and better.”

The Jaguars will start an inexperienced quarterback next season in the wake of losing Dray Joseph, the school’s all-time leader in touchdown passes who was a SWAC Co-Offensive Player of the Year last year.

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