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There is also this. His community and his high
school and his Ohio hometown of Sidney were all
routinely viewed as inferior by their bigger, hot-
shot neighbors over there in Dayton.
"The high school I went to was always looked
down on. Nobody thought we were good or
anything," Bowser says. "Same thing now in
college. Everybody's doubting us and everything.
So I've always had a chip on my shoulder. And
the same with me. Everybody thought I was too
slow or whatever it was. Only one Power Five offer.
So, yeah. I'm always trying to prove everybody
wrong."
Some fun factoids: In Boswer's senior season
Sidney high's only regular season loss was
to Troy high, the alma mater of the late Randy
Walker. Then, in the playoffs, it lost to Cincinnati
LaSalle, the alma mater of former running back
and current student assistant Jeremy Larkin. .
. . And when it came to picking a college, his
backup schools were a couple of fairly well-
known places— Harvard and Yale.
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