Friday, November 28, 2014

Southern bought in to coach Dawson Odums, and he has rewarded the Jaguars for that

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- Grambling’s unexpected and dramatic ascension from the Southwestern Athletic Conference cellar to championship contender in one year has left a lot of people scratching their heads. But not at Southern.

“Yeah, it’s believable,” Jaguars receiver Justin Morgan said.

It’s believable because Southern authored a similar (albeit less dramatic) turnaround just a year ago: It came off a 4-7 season to win its first SWAC championship in 10 years.

The Jaguars are in position to win another, but first they must beat the resurgent Tigers in the Bayou Classic on Saturday in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Both teams are 7-1 in the conference, and the winner claims the West Division title and a berth opposite Alcorn State in the conference title game Dec. 6 in Houston.

Southern’s turnaround, like Grambling’s, began with a coaching change, which ...

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