MADISON- The Bob Jones football team is now into its 2019 season opening the schedule with a 40-24 road loss to Christian Brothers of Memphis. The current season is a special one for the unique circumstances of head coach Kevin Rose and his son, Caden, who just happens to be the senior starting quarterback for his father.

This season will be the final campaign for the two to be together as Caden will soon graduate and attend college, while Kevin will continue his dedicated work as the leader of the Patriots’ football program. Experiencing the final first home game this week versus Muscle Shoals will come with emotions.

“It will be a special feeling for both of us and it will be for every senior as 99-percent of those players will never play football again,” said Kevin. “We as coaches make sure we prepare and give us a chance to win in their senior season.”

Caden, coming off in juries to his hand and to his spleen, said he’s 100-percent healthy for the new football campaign after finishing his most recent work in baseball being a verbal commitment to sign with Alabama for his baseball talents. As for finishing his high school years playing under the watchful eyes of his father, Caden said, “It will be a special year. It will be fun. I’ve been at the games with my father for the last 12 years on the sideline the whole time either as a ball boy or a player.”

Kevin and his wife, Heather, have been married for 24 years and have two children. Their daughter, Kaylee, is 22, while Caden is a budding senior at an age where athletics and school take up most of his time.

For the most part, the hours Kevin and Caden spend together is centered on the younger Rose’s athletic endeavors. With baseball looming on the horizon, the father-son duo is making the best of the final season of football with a tough 2019 schedule and the knowledge special relationships reach out in different areas for both.

For Kevin, his relationship with Caden is one of parent-child, but also as coach-athlete.

“It is a special relationship that we have and it feels great to be his final season as that’s the natural progression in life,” said Kevin.  “I want him to take the next step. He’s been a fine young man and an outstanding athlete. I want to look forward to whatever the Lord has instore for us after that.”

“I agree, this will be a special season,” added Caden.