Saturday, February 7, 2015

Southern’s patience is rewarded with class heavy on defense

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- The fax machine in the Southern football office started humming around 7 a.m. Wednesday. Coach Dawson Odums and his staff watched with satisfaction as numerous early birds turned in their scholarship papers on National Signing Day.

But a couple of key players made Odums wait patiently before he could officially assemble his 27-player class.

 Offensive lineman Jodeci Harris of Plaquemine and defensive end Loren Tademy from Stockbridge, Georgia, waited until mid-morning before giving Odums the news he was waiting to hear.

“Big Jo over at Plaquemine had us on the fence and he wanted to switch hats,” Odums joked, “but at the end of the day his mom called me and said, ‘coach ,we’re going to be Jaguars.’ I was excited about that and I’m really pleased that he’s joining us.”

Georgia Southern had aggressively pursued Tademy, but eventually he came to the same decision as Harris.



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