Bob Jones High School coach Kevin Rose meets with his team after a 49-0 victory against Grissom.
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Friday, November 20
Congratulations to the Bob Jones High School Patriots for a Magical 2009 Season!!!
The Patriots lost to Hoover 24-34 Friday night in the State 6A Quarterfinals, but put up a good fight with all odds against them.
A Huge THANK YOU From the Patriot Fans to the Seniors, Coaches, and the Entire Team.
This 2009 record-breaking team, led by first year head coach Kevin Rose, found their place in BHJS Football History.
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Big play for Bucs
Saturday, November 21, 2009
By Bill Bryant
Times Sports Staff bill.bryant@htimes.com
Hoover's blocked punt for a TD turned tide against Bob Jones
HOOVER - Bob Jones High, as head coach Kevin Rose would later say, "came here to win the football game." Based on his decision to go for it on fourth down four times in the first half of the Patriots' Class 6A quarterfinal Friday night against perennial power Hoover, he certainly meant it.But the one time Bob Jones had to punt - after a three-and-out possession on its first drive of the second half - it proved disastrous. Cody Ross had his punt blocked as several Bucs poured through the Patriots' line, and Maudrecus Humphrey recovered in the end zone for the touchdown.
The momentum-shifting play put Bob Jones in an 11-point hole, one it couldn't quite get out of in a 34-24 loss. "It came down to the third phase of the game - special teams," Patriots receiver Collins Moore said. "They made the big play."|
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Huge pains for Patriots
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| QB Zach Freeman to TE Reggie Ragland vs. Decatur in Rd 3 of State Playoffs |
Thursday, November 19, 2009
By Mike Easterling
Times Sports Writer mike.easterling@htimes.com
Bob Jones likely to face Hoover without its No. 1 quarterback, tight end This week's injury report holds no good news for the Bob Jones High football team. Big, physical sophomore tight end Reggie Ragland was seen last week leaving the field following a thrilling 17-14 win over Decatur on crutches after being injured on the game-winning drive.
He's wearing a boot this week because of what Patriots coach Kevin Rose said was a high ankle sprain and appears doubtful for Friday night's Class 6A quarterfinal at Hoover (11-1).
The biggest loss for Bob Jones (11-1), however, could be at the most critical of positions. Junior quarterback Zach Freeman, it was discovered after the last-second win over the Red Raiders, had received a concussion. Freeman hasn't been cleared to practice this week and will see a doctor today for a final decision. "I don't expect him to be cleared,' Rose said. As for Ragland, Rose said "he wants to play. He'll be a game-time decision.' If Freeman is out, sophomore Jefferey Moss will get the start at quarterback. He played the first quarter in a regular-season win over Huntsville when Freeman was slowed with the flu. "We have full confidence he can go down there and do a good job,' Rose said. The Patriots would obviously prefer to have the quarterback who has engineered the most successful season in school history. "I hate it for us, but I also hate it for (Freeman),' Rose said. "One of his goals all season has been to beat Hoover. To not get the opportunity. I'm sure he's having a hard time with that.' In the final state 6A poll, Bob Jones was ranked No. 8, while Hoover was No. 5. Times pick: Hoover 27-14
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Rose, Patriots ready for Hoover test
Kevin Rose knows the way to Hoover. After all, the first-year Bob Jones football coach was a Buccaneers assistant in 2007 before heading to Huntsville.
But Rose’s Patriots will be traveling uncharted territory – for themselves and the program – Friday when Bob Jones hits the road to play at Hoover in the Class 6A state quarterfinals.
LISTEN TO KEVIN ROSE TALK ABOUT THE HOOVER GAME HERE!
Bob Jones High School coach Kevin Rose
After all, their opponent isn’t just a football team. It is a brand. A national name. “Two-A-Days”. And, with due respect to Prattville, the measuring stick against which all 6A teams in Alabama measure themselves.
COMPLETE STATE PLAYOFF SCHEDULE!
“We would like to be that program, to be where Hoover is,” Rose said earlier this week. “Before you can do that, you have to beat a Hoover. … We want to be at that level, and you have to beat a Hoover to be considered in that mix.”
Rose and Bob Jones (11-1) are certainly shooting for the stars in a season that is already re-writing the Patriots record book. Last week’s 17-14 thriller against Decatur earned Bob Jones its 11th victory – the most any Patriots team has recorded in a single season. It also propelled the program to its first state quarterfinal berth in school history.
And how the Patriots did it stopped hearts across north-central Alabama – as Bob Jones marched the length of the field in the waning moments to set up Braden Hager’s 27-yard field goal to win it at the buzzer.
“I was very confident he would make the kick,” Rose said. “I would have been surprised if he hadn’t made it. I called a time out before that, had them all take a knee, and told them we do this every day at practice. Sure enough, he knocked it through right down the middle.”
“It meant a lot to all of us,” said Hager, who hadn’t been called on for a game-winning kick before Friday in his football career. “We were ready for it, and practice it every day. We have never won that many games in a season or advanced that far. It made history or Bob Jones. … I was a little nervous going out there, but it wasn’t that much longer than an extra point.”
Hager’s right foot clinched Friday’s date with destiny against 11-1 Hoover – a game that will be played at the school’s on-campus stadium and not at Regions Park after midseason rain coupled by a home game chewed up the latter stadium’s grass beyond repair.
For Rose, who credits his time at Hoover as “the best thing in coaching than I have done in my life”, the journey back to Buccaneer Country won’t muster any special message to his team.
“We won’t approach it like that. Obviously, want to be special and do something never done before, but my pregame and halftime speech is the same though,” Rose said. “We need to play hard for 48 minutes, and that is good enough. It is just like playing in the backyard. Just go play, and if Hoover is better than us, I will be the first to shake their hand.”
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Hoover next? No big worry
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
By Paul Gattis
Times Sports Staff paul.gattis@htimes.com
MADISON - The whiteboard inside the Bob Jones High football field house doesn't give a hint.
"Hewitt-Trussville was in the way. Decatur was in the way. Now Hoover is in the way."
It makes Friday night's Class 6A quarterfinal against the Buccaneers seem like just another football game as Bob Jones' first two playoff opponents were written off in past tense.
Friday's game is not just against Hoover. It's against the New York Yankees or the Dallas Cowboys or the Boston Celtics of state high school football. Or all three. Hoover (11-1) is synonymous with championships. Hoover has an aura, a presence, "a swagger" as Bob Jones coach Kevin Rose put it Monday. "They're a group of young kids playing football just like we are," Patriots running back Trai Ragland said. It's just that Bob Jones' kids watch Hoover's kids on TV for entertainment. On a bus trip to play Oxford last season, the Patriots watched "Two-a-Days" - the MTV reality show that followed the 2005 Buccaneers and became must-see TV for teens. "I know a few guys watched it last week before we played Decatur," receiver Collins Moore said. "I wouldn't be surprised if many of them watch it this week."
The 2005 Hoover team was the last of five straight state champions and the Buccaneers haven't won one since and coach Rush Propst is gone after resigning under pressure for issues unrelated to football. So is Hoover still that good? "Yes. Absolutely," Rose said. "They are absolutely that good." Rose is familiar with the Bucs, having served as an assistant coach at Hoover in 2007. He knows well the stars of the 2009 Hoover team, receivers Josh Magee and Maudrecus Humphrey - the son of former Alabama star Bobby Humphrey. "They are Hoover," Rose said. "They are a nationally-recognized football program. It's a great opportunity for us to try to go do something special." The first step in that process, of course, is the mental game. "We're going to play Hoover, the team, and not Hoover, the name," Moore said. "They put their pants on the same way we do, one leg at a time. It's not like they're a bunch of superheroes." Those words spoken Monday morning must be put into action on Friday night.
But even Rose is interested to see how his team handles this spotlight on this stage against this opponent. "Sure, there's a chance (of getting starry-eyed)," Rose said. "I hope that's not the case. (We can't) get wrapped up in the Hoover name and the Hoover mantra and they understand they've got a bunch of good high school players and coaches and we've got the same thing. "If we go down there and play them straight up, we've got a chance. If we get intimidated by the stage, they might blow us out."
But just remember the whiteboard in the field house. Hoover has been reduced to being an obstacle and nothing more. "We never made it to the third round, never done anything here," Ragland said. "They may underestimate us and come out lax and think just because they're Hoover, we're going to lay down for them."
Monday, November 16
From BJHS Principal Robby Parker - For all BJHS Students
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- We are playing at Hoover High School, not at Regions Park where we played in 2005.
- The stadium is about the size of our stadium. Approximate seating capacity is 5,000 +. A crowd of 10,000 is expected………….Bottom line…………if you want to get in, you better get there early.
- If you do not know, Birmingham traffic is very heavy.
- Because of this, we are allowing any student that wants to leave at 3:00 to do so with a parent note. If the student brings back a ticket Monday, we will excuse the absence without taking away a parent note.
- Tickets are $7.00. We will sell them at the front desk Thursday and Friday. We will also sell them during lunch to students.
- We will not be taking student buses. The buses could not leave until after 4 because they still have to run their daily routes. I do not think a bus could get there on time leaving that late and going through Birmingham traffic.
Call the school if you have any questions. I hope to see everyone Friday night.
Robby Parker
Saturday, November 14
THE KICK!!!!
27-Yard Field Goal by Braden Hager to win the 2nd Round State Playoff Game vs. Decatur
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Hager overcomes nerves for Patriots
Saturday, November 14, 2009
By Mike Easterling
Times Sports Writer mike.easterling@htimes.com
MADISON - As time became short and the field even shorter, Bob Jones High junior kicker Braden Hager began to think his school's football playoff life might depend on his right leg.
He thought right. A Patriots drive, which began at their 6-yard line with 6:16 left to play following an interception by Collins Moore, stalled at Decatur's 10-yard line as the clock wound down. After two timeouts, Hager drilled a 27-yard field goal through the middle of the uprights with 1.9 seconds remaining to lift Bob Jones to a 17-14 victory Friday night over Decatur at Madison City Schools Stadium. After a squib kick, time ran out on the biggest victory in Bob Jones history. Students stormed the field to help the Patriots celebrate the school's first second-round win. "I actually thought we were going to score,' Hager said. But around the 1:30 mark he began to sense what was coming. "I was pretty nervous,' he said. The eighth-ranked Patriots (11-1) will play Hoover (11-1) in the 6A quarterfinals after surviving the upset bid by Decatur (9-3). "I knew what we were getting into,' Bob Jones coach Kevin Rose said. "I told the kids it would come down to the last play and we'd have to find a way to win.' Moore intercepted a tipped pass at the Patriots' 6 to set up the game-winning drive. He then caught a 31-yard pass from Zach Freeman on third-and-12 to give Bob Jones a key first down at the Red Raiders' 17. Three plays gained seven yards before Hager's landmark kick. "(Moore is) just one of those special guys that has a knack for the football,' Rose said. Bob Jones lost 31 yards and a fumble on an attempted double pass on the first possession of the game. Decatur recovered at the Patriots 25, but later missed a field goal. Bob Jones drove to Decatur's 7, but a Hager field-goal attempt was blocked. The Red Raiders blocked a punt on the Patriots' next possession at the 34, but eventually had to punt. "We knew we could block some kicks and we did,' Decatur coach Jere Adcock said. "But we didn't scoop them up and score.' Decatur went ahead 7-0 with 5:48 left in the first half on Desmond Lavelle's 11-yard run.Bob Jones got a break when the Red Raiders fumbled away a shotgun snap with 1:30 remaining in the half at Decatur's 28. After a 23-yard pass from Zach Freeman to Xavier Gaddy, Reggie Ragland caught a 4-yard TD pass to tie the game at 7-all.
The Patriots got another break when Decatur's returner slipped on the second-half kickoff at his 4 and, after a short punt, drove 30 yards to a Trai Ragland TD and a 14-7 lead. Decatur tied it at 14-all when quarterback Ben Neill scrambled and threw a 25-yard scoring strike to Jordan Phillips at the 4:59 mark of the third. Neill, who couldn't handle punting duties because of a broken fibula, had a thick cast on the leg to protect the injury. "I don't think any kid in the state has more guts,' Adcock said.Friday, November 13
HISTORY MADE TONIGHT AT THE BOB!!!!
Bob Jones Defeats Decatur 17-14 in Round 2 of the Playoffs!!!
For the first time in Bob Jones High School history, the Patriots are going to the Quarter-Finals of the Alabama 6A playoffs. The 11-1 Patriots battled it out against Decatur High School at "The Bob" Friday night, and won the game in the last 6 seconds of the game with a 27 yard field goal by Braden Hager. This field goal was set up due to a key interception by Collins Moore late in the 4th quarter. Decatur played with agressiveness throughout the game, but the Patriots hung with the Red Raiders and pulled out the win. The 730UMP Tenders Chicken Player of the Game was Junior Kicker Braden Hager. With the win, Bob Jones is on the road next Friday to the Quarter-Finals of the state playoffs as one of only 8 teams left in search of the 6A title.
This is the first time Bob Jones has ever won 11 games in a season.
Get ready to travel with the Patriots next Friday night to Hoover as they play the Hoover Bucaneers as they continue to win their way into Bob Jones High School history.
GO PATRIOTS!!!!!
Thursday, November 12
BJHS Football Interviews on TV!!
Check Out This Great "TV spot" on BJHS football.
Just Click the Video Icon Below.
Thank you WAAY TV.
See Some of Your Favorite Plays, Players,
and a Coach You Might Recognize!!
2009 BJHS Football - PlayoffsThursday, October 22
The 2009 Bob Jones Varsity Football Team
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Thursday, October 22
Head Coach of the Bob Jones High School Football Team
-Coach Kevin Rose-
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Wednesday, August 26
Bob Jones Patriot Fan Gear Available at the Stadium and on Line
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While at the Bob Jones Football Game this weekend at Madison City Stadium (The Bob), don't forget to get your Patriot Spirit Wear. Excellent selection of hats, t-shirts, and great fan apparrel. Patriot fan gear is located at the South end of the Stadium.
If you want to get your Patriot Gear ahead of time, please visit Miss Robin's Embroidery Website at http://www.missrobinsembroidery.com/ to pick up some BJHS Football apparrel.
Thursday, September 10
2009 Varsity Roster!!!
The 2009 Varsity Roster has been updated.
Print a new copy for the next game.
Handout: 2009 Varsity Roster
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Hoover High School: 34 - Bob Jones High School: 24
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7:00 PM | Hoover High School |