FOOTBALL: Dodd retires as Lamar offensive coordinator
Published 2:17 pm Friday, February 8, 2019
Dan Dodd has retired as Lamar’s offensive coordinator after two seasons.
The university did not officially announce Dodd’s retirement, but a spokesperson for the athletic department confirmed it.
Lamar in 2018 ranked third in the Southland Conference in scoring offense (30.9 points per game) and fourth in total offense (431.4 yards per game). Offensive lineman Garrett Bowery became a consensus All-American and quarterback Jordan Hoy was named Southland Conference player of the week twice while starting in absence of Darrel Colbert Jr. Hoy became the Southland’s newcomer of the year.
The Cardinals, who made the NCAA Division I playoffs for the first time in November, improved in both categories from 2017.
The retirement ends a 34-year career for Dodd, who came to Beaumont after three seasons as an assistant and recruiting coordinator at Arkansas State. He had also been an assistant and head coach at Butler County (Kansas) Community College and assistant at Utah State, Western Illinois, New Mexico, TCU, New Mexico and Tulane, with a three-year stint at Capistrano Valley Christian School in California.
About I.C. Murrell
I.C. Murrell was promoted to editor of The News, effective Oct. 14, 2019. He previously served as sports editor since August 2015 and has won or shared eight first-place awards from state newspaper associations and corporations. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, grew up mostly in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
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