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NSU names new football coach

Fred Jeter | 4/22/2021, 6 p.m.
Dawson Odums is the new head football coach at Norfolk State University.
Coach Odums

Dawson Odums is the new head football coach at Norfolk State University.

Officials announced his selection at a news conference Wednesday.

Coach Odums succeeds Latrell Scott, who left NSU for a coaching position at East Carolina University. An alumnus of North Carolina Central University, Coach Odums has served as head football coach at Southern University in Louisiana, where his teams earned a 58-31 record from 2012 to 2019 and won the Southwestern Athletic Conference, or SWAC, title in 2013.