Southern defense keeps learning

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana  -- Southern football coach Dawson Odums said his defense “made some busts” in its first spring scrimmage last week.

He said the defense had one bust in the Jaguars’ second scrimmage Saturday.

“Other than that, it was individual guys making individual plays,” he said. “I like seeing four and five guys on the tackle, and I saw a lot of that today. I thought our safeties got a lot better from the last scrimmage to this scrimmage.”

That improvement is consistent with last season, when the defenders demonstrated that they could learn from their mistakes and get better week after week.

The difference in the performance of the defense in the first three games and the last 10 was about as stark as it could be, and it was one of the keys to Southern’s drive to the Southwestern Athletic Conference championship.

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