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We want to wish everyone a safe, blessed, and happy July 4th! Please pray for God’s favor on our country.

Dabo Swinney shares what it takes to be great and it starts with how you prepare. "You gotta embrace the suck." "There's a lot of it that just sucks and you gotta fall in love with that part if you're gonna do anything great in life." "All the great players that I've been around - the preparation is what separates them. They love the preparation." Everybody loves the games, but are you willing to do the work to prepare. What does your preparation ethic look like? "It's falling in love and embracing the suck along the way - that's what separates us." It means falling in love with the process. Process over outcome. (🎥 Ed Mylett)

Our Sheet Sale will run through Monday, July 6. Please see any football player to place your order of high quality bed sheets. You can also message us through this page and we can take care of you. Thank you for your support of BA Football!

YOUTH CAMP IS TOMORROW EVENING! It looks like the weather will cooperate and there is still time to register. We will also accept walkups tomorrow beginning at 4:30. Camp begins at 5 pm.

Program ad sales & sponsorship opportunities are still available for BA Football! The forms are below. If you would like to support Rebel Football in 2026, please see any player or message us through this page. Your support is needed & always appreciated! #BAFOOTBALLITMATTERS

Happy Father’s Day! Thank you for the impact you make every day!

GO CRAZY, FOLKS! #RollTide

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BA 2026 Varsity football schedule. Pee Wee & JV schedule will be released as soon as it is completed. Each home game, we will be recognizing a BA State Championship team. Thank you to Mr. Drippy Plumbing for sponsoring Bessemer Academy Football! #BAFBItMatters

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Jr highlights! Senior season about to lift off! @CSAPrepStar @SportPrepX @GatlinburgBowl @HallTechSports1 @CoachBramb @BARebelFootball @REBSathletics @BessemerAcademy #QB #8xstatechamps #comeplayatBA

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2026 AISA Softball State Champions #REBS

BA Football is proud to announce the return of Coach Rod Foster to the Rebel Program! Coach Foster has tremendous playing and coaching experience and will be a great leader/mentor to the young men in our program! Welcome home, Coach Rod!

Thank you @UPIKEFOOTBALL for my 1st college visit #AGTG @UPIKEFirstYear @CoachMikeHarris @CoachBramb @BARebelFootball @247recruiting

Please help spread the word! We need each family represented.

The QB offer market is complicated to say the least. We verified the 2026 cycle across all 67 Power 4 schools and found 1,104 school-side QB "Official" offers. From our count, there were only 31 actual high school QB roster spots given. That is roughly 36 offers for every 1 real spot. And 39 of the 67 schools took zero high school quarterbacks. That is the first reality families need to understand. An "official" offer has value. It reflects evaluation and access. But it is not the same thing as roster allocation. The second reality is just as important. Many schools may still be acting in good faith when a QB board changes late. The problem is that quarterback recruiting is now one of the most volatile markets in football. A staff can genuinely like a quarterback in October. Then in December a coordinator leaves. A current QB stays. A transfer becomes available. A decommitment happens somewhere else. NIL priorities shift. The room changes. The board changes. Sometimes the literal night before signing day. That does not always mean the offer was fake. It means quarterback recruiting is a one-spot problem inside a moving market. That is why families cannot confuse interest with certainty. The serious question is not just, “Who offered?” The serious question is, “Who still has both the need and the willingness to give one of their very limited quarterback spots to you when the market tightens?” That is why QB recruiting is not a volume game. It is an alignment game. Offers matter. Timing matters. Roster structure matters. Development matters. Command matters. When the board starts moving, the quarterbacks who survive are usually the ones staffs feel most comfortable protecting. Visibility helps, but alignment is what turns recruiting attention into a real opportunity.

Great players bring the right approach every day no matter what. Wins are just a byproduct of the foundation you build. As a coach my job is to shoot them straight. If you tolerate a day off in prep you teach them that excellence is optional. It never is.

This is what championship level coaches sound like when their teams win 12-0 and don’t play up to expectations.