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Ted Ginn Sr. (official thread)

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I pray for Coach Ginn. Good men like him looking out for the young are becoming fewer. People can debate about the pipeline and how it's has or hasn't helped us. One thing they cannot debate is the type of man Ginn is, and the type of men he tries to turn these kids into.
 
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Ted Ginn Sr: Former player hopes for the best
Published: Monday, October 03, 2011
By Branson Wright, The Plain Dealer

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Glenville football coach Ted Ginn Sr.

INDIANAPOLIS ---- Jovan Washington is familiar with the rumors about the health of his high school football coach Ted Ginn Sr.

"I heard he was sick," said Washington, a 2008 Glenville graduate, now a senior tight end for Kentucky State. "It left me speechless because I was told he may have already coached his last game. If it's true, it's sad because he's had an impact on so many lives."

And like so many others, Washington's not sure about Ginn's condition. Ginn did not coach in Glenville's loss to St. Ignatius on Saturday. He also didn't comment following the game.

But Washington, who was on the other end of Kentucky State's 57-31 loss to Albany State in the Circle City Classic last Saturday, said Ginn will continue to help kids on or off the field.

"He's had an influence on so many lives and that will never change," Washington said. "Coach is a lifesaver, and I'll always thank him for that."
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Glenville's Ted Ginn keeps finding 'teachable moments': Tim Warsinskey's Take
Published: Monday, October 10, 2011
By Tim Warsinskey, The Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ted Ginn was speaking to his players upon his return to fulltime coaching last week, but he might as well have been talking to all of us.

"You've got to look at it like you look at life," Ginn said. "There's going to come a time when I'm not in your life. You're going to have to adjust to when I'm not there."

For a man who deals in life lessons, Ginn, 55, delivered one personally in the form of a three-week absence for undisclosed health reasons. It was a stark reminder to the teenagers he mentors as Glenville's football coach and director of Ginn Academy.

Coaches such as Ginn seem like they've been around forever, and always will be. Some do last almost forever, such as the late Augie Bossu, who coached into his 80s. Some go before their time, such as Glenville basketball coach James O'Neal Johnson, who passed a decade ago at 56. Glenville players might have little memory of Johnson himself, but a playground behind the school that bears his name is a lasting symbol of what he meant to the area.

Ginn's impact is immeasurable, and this is a good time to take stock of how fortunate Cleveland is to have him guiding kids and prodding adults.

"The guy is everything to the Glenville community," longtime assistant coach Matt Chinchar said. "He makes things happen. He's like the catalyst for change. He's not afraid to think outside the box and he's not afraid to challenge the school district to raise the bar. That's one of the reasons he created Ginn Academy."

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Ted Ginn, Sr. Talks About Medical Battle

Glenville grads playing in Super Bowl giving their all for their former coach, Ted Ginn Sr.
Mary Kay Cabot, The Plain Dealer
February 01, 2013

NEW ORLEANS -- San Francisco 49ers safety and Cleveland native Donte Whitner, who will face the Baltimore Ravens in the Super Bowl on Sunday, pointed to a tattoo on his bulging forearm during a media session Thursday that read, "Thank God for Ginn."

The indelible mark on his arm -- and on his soul -- is a tribute to his former Glenville High School coach and father figure, Ted Ginn Sr., who has been battling pancreatic cancer since August and is in New Orleans to watch Whitner and his son, 49ers receiver Ted Ginn Jr., play in the biggest game of their lives.

"Teddy and I would not be here today at the Super Bowl without Ted Ginn Sr.," said Whitner, the 49ers' starting strong safety. "Ever since we were kids, Ted pushed us to get to where we are right now -- from Glenville to Ohio State to now. And to have him here with us after everything that he's been through this year makes it all the more special."

In late August, just before the start of the high school football season, Ginn Sr., who has transformed the lives of hundreds of inner-city kids at Glenville and Ginn Academy for underprivileged boys, was rushed to University Hospitals for emergency hernia surgery. During post-operative exams, his surgeon, Dr. Jeffrey Hardacre, discovered a tumor on Ginn's pancreas that was producing excess insulin.

Ginn, 57, quietly stepped away from the Glenville sideline to begin a journey of surgeries and recovery that has left him 55 pounds lighter and more grateful than ever to be alive. Hardacre removed the tumor in mid-October, but Ginn suffered a complication that required a follow-up surgery. Subsequently, he developed fluid in his lungs and had to undergo another procedure.

All told, he spent about 60 days in the hospital and was released just after Christmas.

"He's been to hell and back," Hardacre said. "It's a miracle how well he's recovered from a difficult post-operative course. But fortunately, he has a very good chance of being cured of his form of pancreatic cancer. If you're going to have one, it's the kind you want to have."

Ginn's voice is weak but his spirit is strong. He has spent the week in New Orleans, not far from where he was born and raised, relishing in the joy of Whitner and his son being in the Super Bowl.

"There's no question, I'm a walking miracle," he said. "I'm blessed to be here. The doctors called me their miracle man. If not for God's grace, I wouldn't be here. I have good days and bad days, but I wouldn't have missed this for the world."

For Ginn Jr., who mostly returns punts and kicks for the Niners, watching his dad enjoy the Super Bowl festivities has been the highlight of his week.

"I watched him [Tuesday at media day]," said Ginn Jr. "Just to watch him look around, he wanted to cry, but he couldn't. It's big. No matter what goes on, I'll be happy that I gave him this opportunity to experience this. It's a dream come true for him."

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Ted Ginn Sr. returns more inspired than ever to save kids: Tim Warsinskey's Take
By Tim Warsinskey, The Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND, Ohio – This will seem weird, but it's the way my mind works sometimes.

When I look at Ted Ginn Sr., I think of Ted Kennedy.

Specifically, I recall Kennedy's speech to the 1980 Democratic convention, which ended:

“For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.''

That was Kennedy's concession speech upon losing the presidential nomination to Jimmy Carter, the point being Kennedy wasn't conceding his life's purpose.

Ginn has been to the brink and back this school year, having survived pancreatic cancer, and he sounded Monday like a guy who isn't conceding anything, much less his mission.

With a clean bill of health, Ginn returned to work full-time April 25 as executive director at the all-boys public school he founded six years ago, Ginn Academy in Collinwood. He plans to be back on the sidelines as head football coach at Glenville this fall after missing all of last season.

“I missed the relationships with the kids and just being around people,'' Ginn said. “When you're incarcerated in a place like that (the hospital), you miss the simple things about life.''

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High-school football: Ginn beats cancer odds to coach again
By Bill Rabinowitz
The Columbus Dispatch Friday July 19, 2013

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?God has blessed me to be here,? said Ted Ginn Sr., center, the football coach at Cleveland Glenville High School.

Ted Ginn Sr. didn?t know how stacked the odds were against him surviving. Only after he had beaten pancreatic cancer did the Glenville High School football coach learn that 19 out of 20 don?t .

?They never told me until it was all over,? Ginn said.

Now the coach whose Cleveland school has been a pipeline to Ohio State and so many other college football programs is poised to get back on the sidelines when preseason practice starts.

Ginn, 57, still doesn?t have the energy and endurance he had before he was diagnosed last August. But he is getting stronger physically. His mental resolve has never been greater.

?I?m thankful to be alive and more determined than I ever have been in my life,? he said. ?God has blessed me to be here.?

Ginn has always believed that his mission is far greater than winning football games. He takes it as almost an affront when the focus of conversation is about championships.

?It?s about winning kids, winning people,? Ginn said. ?I say that I win all the time. I?ve never lost. How do you lose people? How do you lose kids? Every time I graduate a kid, I?m winning. Every time I get a kid in college, I?m winning.?

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High school football coach Ted Ginn Sr. overcomes cancer for second time to continue his mission
Glenville football coach graduates 95 percent of students at Ginn Academy.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013
By Dave Krider | MaxPreps.com

In November of 2012, Ted Ginn Sr. was put on life support for an entire week. Doctors were unsure if he would survive.

Before recovering, he endured six surgeries, high blood pressure and a number of infections.

Today the 57-year-old legend has regained his position as head football coach at Glenville (Cleveland) and is preparing for the upcoming season after overcoming a rare form of deadly pancreatic cancer.

Ginn, who has sent many players to college and the NFL, told MaxPreps, "God's grace and mercy is 100 percent of the reason that I'm here. What I had, only five percent of people live and I'm in the five percent. Nobody told me how serious it was. I didn't find this all out until after I went through it."

His wife of 30 years, Jeanette, related, "Any time there is sickness, it's always hard on the whole family. We stayed supportive of each other and went through the journey. We just did a lot of prayer."

He also received supportive calls from such college coaches as Urban Meyer of Ohio State and Brady Hoke of Michigan.

The biggest problem now is how to slow him down until he is fully recovered.

Jeanette pointed out, "We try to slow him down, but he's a man of big vision and has a lot of passion for what he does. It's a little difficult."

Ginn's mind may be ready to get back to full speed, but sometimes his body tells him otherwise.

He confessed, "I have good days and bad days. I've got to work on my endurance. I'm still learning my body. I'm more determined than ever before."

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