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Originally Posted by buckiprof
It is a stretch to consider Coldwater to be in the Dayton area, but west central Ohio is very much so solid Buckeye country. However, I still think that NE Ohio is a little more rock solid as far as that is concerned.
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Coldwater is Miami Valley. It is in DDN's coverage area. Middletown, which is probably about the same distance from downtown Dayton, is not in the DDN coverage area. So, the MAC gets included as "Dayton area" by virtue of the set-up of media outlets, I guess. Since people in Middletown are more likely to buy the Enquirer, DDN doesn't go down past Springboro in its sports coverage, except mildly.
jlb was only saying that no big-timers from Dayton snub Ohio State. I can only think of Ashton Watson (MSU) as a recent Miami Valley player who chose a D-I school OVER Ohio State. Good players like Peerless Price, Andy McCullough, Javon Ringer, Greg Orton, etc...have to go somewhere else because they are not offered.
NE Ohio has a littany of players who snub Ohio State for other programs. That's all he was saying. Lenix is not a good example, but McCarthy, Burgess, Crable, etc are.