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.