Aggie Football
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Odums enters his first
season as the North Carolina A&T defensive coordinator and linebackers
coach. If Odums past successes are any indication, the Aggies defense
will be back to their tenacious style of play shortly.
Over Odums’ 11-year coaching career he has helped to engineer defenses that are rated high nationally. His most recent coaching stint came in Daytona Beach, Fla., where he spent three seasons coaching the Bethune-Cookman defensive line. Over Odums three-year span there, the Wildcats run defense was among one the stingiest.
In 2007, the Wildcats defense ranked third in the conference in rush defense and third in total defense. Odums also worked with the Wildcats special teams units. He scouted opposing teams’ special teams personnel. Before arriving at Bethune-Cookman University, Odom spent four seasons at Division II Clark Atlanta.
In 2002 and 2003, he served as the Panthers assistant head coach, the defensive coordinator and the recruiting coordinator. In 2004, he earned his first opportunity to head a collegiate program when he took over as Clark Atlanta’s interim head football coach. Months later, the interim label was removed from his title as he became the Panthers head coach.
Odums has also been an assistant at Georgia Southern and Gardner-Webb. He spent two seasons at Georgia Southern where he coached linebackers his first year and defensive ends during his second year. In 2000, Odums played a role in GSU winning a Division I-AA national championship. The Eagles were led by a defense that ranked 23rd nationally in scoring defense and 18th in pass defense. The Eagles won the Southern Conference with the No. 6 rated defense in the country.
Odums was the defensive ends coach at GWU for one season. The next year Odums received his coaching start at Crest High School in Shelby, N.C. He coached linebackers there from 1997-98. Odums earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in physical education from N.C. Central in 1997. He is married to Audrey Odums and they have one child – Jasmine.