Another Jack Greynolds at helm in Barberton; son is hired to coach basketball team that made his dad a legend

Source: www.ohio.com --- Wednesday, June 08, 2016
BARBERTON: One might wonder if father and son had ever discussed the possibility of this day. The answer would be no. Not once. The late Jack Greynolds Sr., one of the most winning high school Basketball coaches in Ohio history, had a stroke in 1987. He lost the ability to speak or write when his son was just 20. So as Jack Greynolds Jr. — trained by his iconic father at Barberton High School — embarked on his own high school coaching career, the two men never had the opportunity to muse about “what if” that path led him back home. On Wednesday, the Barberton Board of Education hired the younger Greynolds as the new high school boys Basketball coach, and this fall, he will lead his team onto a court called “Greynolds Floor” in his dad’s honor. Jack Jr. is pretty sure Jack Sr. is smiling down on him. While his dad was never able to vocalize how he felt about his son following in his footsteps, he found ways to express himself. A gregarious man whose published photos made him recognizable to many strangers, he loved to sit on a mall bench while his wife shopped and wait for folks to stop and greet him. Then, wordlessly, he would pull from his pocket a box score clipped from the newspaper, showing whatever team his son was coaching. “It was his way of saying he was proud of me,” Jack Jr. said. Older residents who remember Barberton’s glory years as a perennial state contender in boys Basketball may get a nostalgic chill hearing the ...

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