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Woo Hoo Background Info

From what we have been able to piece together over the past few years, we have come to the following conclusion: the "woo hoo" was originally heard during a Clemson -vs- UVA game in 1990. It stayed dormant until 1998 when the flag line started doing it. It gained momentum with some students (especially freshmen). From what we understand, it is now taught at freshmen orientation. This is a huge problem because these freshmen come into Clemson thinking that the "woo-hoo" is part of our tradition when it is most absolutely NOT!!! It must stop here.

In 1990, the Woo-Hoo was first used in our fight song against Virginia. In this game, we lost to Virginia 20 - 7, the first time Clemson had not beaten Virginia in 31 years. We started to feel the effects of the "woo-hoo" soon after as 1991 was the last year we won the ACC title. In short, the "woo-hoo" began the slide to mediocrity we are just now beginning to recover from."

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Here is how it really started...

Jun 29, 2017, 4:52 PM [ in reply to Re: Who is credited with starting the WooHoo? ]

2016 Tiger Band alumnus here. As band members we maintain a detailed historical record of the history of Clemson's fight songs from the days of Dixie, to Tiger Rag, to the 2014 revival of Tiger Rah.

In the mid 1990s, circa 1995, Tiger Rag underwent a few changes to its intro, tempo, and the melody parts to the C-L-E-M-S-O-N spellout at the end of tiger rag.

Well, enter the Tiger Band color guard. Since I'm an alum, I can safely say this: the color guard doesnt have many fans. Not the members individually, just the idea of the color guard as it exists today. Typically, the kids who cant play instruments but want to be in band go to color guard. They do a lot for the band and they work hard, but they generally get overlooked and also become an outlet for the director's frustration when we make mistakes in practice. Anyways, not to be denied, the 1995 color guard wanted to do something to make themselves "more valuable" to Tiger Band. Enter the "woohoo". They started doing it in the 1995 season as a way to be "recognized" for their contributions to the band and hoped it would become another cherished Clemson tradition.

What actually happened was a dumbing down of Tiger Rag that makes Clemson fans seem like a total joke and ruins any intimidation factor the C-L-E-M-S-O-N may impart on our rivals. It makes us sound like a bunch of sissies, basically. The "woohoo" has become the butt of many Clemson jokes and ruins the intimidating factor Tiger Rag has.

Unfortunately, the sorority girls loved it, and naturally the frat boys joined in. This spread to students and now, we have one of the biggest travesties in Clemson history ruining Tiger Rag and for some reason it just wont die.

In Tiger Band, we are specifically taught NOT to woohoo because it isnt tradition and it sounds horrible. We, collectively, hate the woohoo and usually scorn the color guard for starting and maintaining this scar upon Tiger Rag.

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My opinion is that if you're scared to woohoo, you're

And my opinion is if you wooo hooo we know your sexuality.

Shouldn't you be collecting an employment check somewhere?***

Hence all my free time to spend on Tnet.

No, we are not homosexual

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There's two kinds of people in this world.

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Who is credited with starting the WooHoo?

Re: Who is credited with starting the WooHoo?

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Totes1!! I luv 2 woohoo

millennials woo hoo just to pzz us off***

That's because most of us old men that hate it, don't twit***

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