Bob Jones High School coach Kevin Rose meets with his team after a 49-0 victory against Grissom.
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2009 BJHS Football Banquet
The 2009 BJHS Football Banquet is being held Monday, December 14, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. at the:
Von Braun Center North Hall
700 Monroe Street, Huntsville, AL
The Touchdown Club will pay for Players.Guests will pay separately.
** You will be charged $5.00, per car, for parking in the VBC parking lots**
Sunday Attire
*****RESERVATIONS REQUIRED*****
(ALL MONEY is due 30 Nov. We must provide an exact headcount by 1 December)
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ALUMNI NEWS
Keep up with alumni, Troy Sutherland!!
Big Ten teams highlight Crimson Tide baseball schedule
Dusty Compton | Tuscaloosa News
University of Alabama head baseball coach Mitch Gaspard works with pitcher Troy Sutherland during practice Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 at Sewell Thomas Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Published: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 11:32 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 11:32 p.m.
TUSCALOOSA | Year one of the Mitch Gaspard era officially begins on Saturday, Feb. 20 with the University of Alabama and its first-year head baseball coach hosting the South Alabama Jaguars.
Alabama released its 2010 schedule on Monday, which is highlighted by home Southeastern Conference series with Auburn, Mississippi State, Florida and Ole Miss.
The Crimson Tide takes on Auburn four times with the first game coming in a neutral-site contest on March 9 at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery and the final three in an April series with the Tigers.
Out-of-conference games with Big Ten teams Michigan State and Minnesota boost the Tide’s home schedule, which also includes dates with in-state opponents Jacksonville State, Samford and UAB along with Auburn.
“What I like about the schedule is obviously you’ve got two marquee games with conference schools with Georgia and Auburn, and you’ve got some Big Ten flavor in it with Minnesota and Michigan State, which are two very good opponents that have been to regionals and are good baseball schools from the north,” Gaspard said. “The same with Illinois-Chicago, who we played last year, which they’ve been in a regional the past four out of five years.
“Obviously all of your in-state schools are there and they’re good every year. We know when they play the University of Alabama we’re going to get their best shot. Whether it’s here or on the road.”
Minnesota is coming off a great season, posting a 40-19 record and making the Baton Rouge (La.) Regional before falling to the eventual national champion LSU Bengal Tigers. Michigan State went 23-31 in 2009.
The road schedule consists of games at the College of Charleston, Southeastern Louisiana and SEC series at Arkansas, Kentucky, LSU, South Carolina and Tennessee.
The Tide also have scheduled neutral-site games with Georgia and UAB at Regions Parks and, as previously mentioned, with Auburn at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery.
Gaspard was an assistant on former coach’s Jim Wells’ staff for nine seasons in two stints at UA (1995-2001, 2008-2009) and helped play a part in the 2010 schedule.
“I think that one thing we want to do in the future is one of the weekends prior to conference (play) we want play someone that is a traditional top 20 school, where we do a home and home,” Gaspard said. “I think that just helps prepare you both being at home and on the road in a postseason type setting to where you can handle that.
“Also, I think it’s important too that you want to play a couple of different styles of team early so you can be prepared for whatever style it is you may see once SEC starts. I think that helps your club along the way. The main thing is you’re looking for improvement those first 15, 20 games. You need to play quality opponents to do that.”
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| The BJHS Patriot Football Team Running on the Field to Play Hoover |
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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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| Mid-Air Catch by Collins Moore against Hoover - State 6A Quarterfinals |
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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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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.”
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.Thursday, November 12
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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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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