Dawson Odums
American football coach
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| Intro | American football coach | ||||||
| Places | United States of America | ||||||
| is | Sports coach Football Coach American football coach | ||||||
| Work field | Sports | ||||||
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| Birth | Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA | ||||||
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Biography
Dawson Tayrone Odums is an American football coach. He is the head coach at Southern University, a position he has held since 2012. Odums served as the interim head football coach at Clark Atlanta University for one season, in 2004.
Coaching career
Odums agreed to a three-year contract extension as head football coach with Southern University as reported by the Advocate and confirmed by his agent Burton Rocks on January 17, 2014. On January 21, 2015 it was reported in the Advocate that Bethune-Cookman had asked for, and received, permission to speak with Coach Odums regarding their own head coaching vacancy.
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | Coaches | AP | ||
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| Clark Atlanta Panthers (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) | |||||||||
| 2004 | Clark Atlanta | 1–9 | 1–7 | 8th | |||||
| Clark Atlanta: | 1–9 | 1–7 | |||||||
| Southern Jaguars (Southwestern Athletic Conference) | |||||||||
| 2012 | Southern | 4–5 | 3–5 | T–2nd | |||||
| 2013 | Southern | 9–4 | 7–2 | 1st | W SWAC Championship Game | ||||
| 2014 | Southern | 9–4 | 8–1 | 1st | L SWAC Championship Game | ||||
| 2015 | Southern | 6–5 | 6–3 | 3rd | |||||
| 2016 | Southern | 8–3 | 8–1 | 2nd | |||||
| 2017 | Southern | 7–3 | 5–1 | 2nd | |||||
| 2018 | Southern | 7–3 | 6–1 | 1st | |||||
| 2019 | Southern | 8–4 | 6–1 | 1st | |||||
| Southern: | 58–31 | 49–15 | |||||||
| Total: | 59–40 | ||||||||