Ted Ginn Sr. brought the city of Cleveland something it had never experienced before: a state championship for a public school.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — You don’t win a state championship in football or any other team sport without a capable coach. And no football program in Metro Cleveland has had a more capable one than Glenville High School.
I doubt Ginn, now 67, took over the football program at his alma mater with a goal of piling up titles or building a better program than any other public high school. Instead, I suspect he had loftier aspirations in his mind: to prepare Black boys to succeed.So, the success his Tarblooders had two weeks ago in the finals was predictable. His program had been oh-so close on other occasions but never reached the summit.
In too many urban neighborhoods, people who care aren’t everywhere. Critics of those neighborhoods are. They waste their energy on the negatives and ignore the positives. While all alumni might think they have a stake in this title, they might want to lean back and savor it vicariously. The moment belongs to Ginn’s boys, who shed their adolescent innocence.
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