Southern shows improvement in scrimmage

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- Southern coach Dawson Odums had several areas in which he wanted the Jaguars to show improvement from last week’s scrimmage to the one Saturday morning.

He wanted to see more energy from the whole team, the defense getting faster to the football and creating turnovers, and improvement from the run game.

The players seemed to fulfill each request during a 100-play scrimmage at the Louisiana Leadership Institute.

“I thought the energy was where it needed to be in order to have a successful scrimmage,” Odums said. “I thought we competed. I thought both sides did some good things.”

The biggest improvement came from the defense, which allowed eight touchdowns and didn’t get a turnover a week earlier. On Saturday, it allowed four touchdowns, created four turnovers, produced two touchdowns and a safety, and made a goal-line stand.

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