Southern football team to start preseason practice off campus

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- The Southern football team reported to campus Sunday to get ready for the start of preseason camp. But the Jaguars will be heading off campus for the first several practices beginning Monday afternoon.

A delay in the construction of the Jaguar Park practice facility has forced Southern to practice at the Louisiana Leadership Institute on Hooper Road, just a few miles from campus.

The Jaguars practiced at Louisiana Leadership late last season after the expiration of daylight savings time caused the end of practice to occur after sunset. The existing practice field has no lights, and the current construction makes it unusable until the project is complete.

“The good thing is we’ve been over there before, so we know the plan, we know the layout,” coach Dawson Odums said. “We’re not going to a facility that we’re not comfortable being a part of. It’s a really easy transition. We load up on the busses, head over, get our work in and come back and continue to do that until we get our practice facility ready to go.”

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