Where did the term "School Out West" originate?

rogdochar · Jan 18, 2019

Lagoon wouldn't be so rude as to call CGGator a liar -- he's saying CG's dad is a liar. There, I hope I've smoothed things over?

Of course, Spurrier was truly a wit, and true wits don't repeat spontaneous material. They have an assembly line of zingers to move on to. So, he just said it once.??

-THE DUDE- · Jan 18, 2019

CGgater said:
SOS didn’t use “SOW” constantly the way urbs did, but he first said it in the early 90s. He referred to “the... the... uh... that school out west...” Basically pretending that he forgot their name, as opposed to urb’s refusal to utter it. I could easily hear the audience (reporters or maybe a booster club?) laughing hysterically in the video.

urbs, when he arrived, described what drew him to UF and mentioned how much he admired SOS’s ability to get under his rivals’ skin with the zingers, especially the “SOW” reference.

Denial doesn’t change the facts. Put the bottle down. You’re embarrassing yourself.

Urban used it like Ohio state does with the team up north for Michigan...he started it

PastyStoole · Jan 18, 2019

Urban stole it from Ohio State. Woody Hayes first used the directional thing. At the time that Hayes coined it, Spurrier was still managing a struggling career as a punter for the 'Niners. He wasn't thinking about college football.
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Gator By Marriage · Jan 18, 2019

divits said:
Wow. 4 pages......so far.

You do know we are on a quest, right?

LagoonGator68 · Jan 18, 2019

PastyStoole said:
Urban stole it from Ohio State. Woody Hayes first used the directional thing. At the time, Spurrier was managing a struggling career as a punter for the 'Niners. He wasn't thinking about college football.
Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes - history, famous quotes, all time record, photo gallery

Bingo!

Hayes usually referred to Michigan as "That School Up North", supposedly because he could not bring himself to speak the name Michigan...hence OSU fans refer to UM as 'TSUN'. He also referred to it as "that state up north" or "that team up north" .

AuggieDosta · Jan 18, 2019

Gator By Marriage said:
You do know we are on a quest, right?

Pablos Tunnel · Jan 18, 2019

Everyone here is wrong. It goes back to the 1800’s

On January 24, 1851 the Florida Legislature voted to establish West Florida Seminary, which became Florida State University and East Florida Seminary which became the University of Florida. School out west became known as FSU.

Pablos Tunnel · Jan 18, 2019

This guy said it first.

Pablos Tunnel · Jan 18, 2019

I heard him say it.

FireFoley · Jan 18, 2019

Regardless of its origination, I always claimed that SOW never really was meant to stand for School Out West, but was truly used for one of the true definitions of the word SOW.

SOW: an adult female pig, especially one which has farrowed.

I rest my case!!!!!

CGgater · Jan 18, 2019

Y’all believe what you want. I know what I heard, saw and read.

It’s highly possible SOS borrowed the joke from hayes, but he said it before urbs. Spurrier certainly had plenty of other original material that was classic. urbs won us a lot of games, but I can’t recall a single zinger that was his, other than calling 3 TOs at the end of a particular game in Jax.

ThreatMatrix · Jan 18, 2019

CGgater said:
Y’all believe what you want. I know what I heard, saw and read.

It’s highly possible SOS borrowed the joke from hayes, but he said it before urbs. Spurrier certainly had plenty of other original material that was classic. urbs won us a lot of games, but I can’t recall a single zinger that was his, other than calling 3 TOs at the end of a particular game in Jax.

I'm pretty sure Spurrier said it at least once. When Urbs came up with it I remembering thinking I'd heard it from Steve.

CGgater · Jan 18, 2019

ThreatMatrix said:
I'm pretty sure Spurrier said it at least once. When Urbs came up with it I remembering thinking I'd heard it from Steve.

You did. Don’t listen to the unbelievers.

Pablos Tunnel · Jan 18, 2019

I would bet SOS and his teamates were saying SOW in the 60’s. No way anyone can be 100% certain it started with Urban.

LagoonGator68 · Jan 18, 2019

Pablos Tunnel said:
I would bet SOS and his teamates were saying SOW in the 60’s. No way anyone can be 100% certain it started with Urban.

I'm almost certain I heard Ray Graves say it in 1962 or '63 around Halloween I think

no1g8r · Jan 18, 2019

CGgater said:
I remember when urbs was first hired and the initial stories and interviews hit the papers and interwebs, one of the questions was “what attracted you to UF?”... Among several answers he gave, SOS’ offense, legacy and particularly his ability to get under rivals’ skin. He said he loved that Spurrier referred to f$u as the SOW. urbs adopted the term immediately and used it every chance he got.

I don't remember when Spurrier said it, but I do remember the interview with Meyer when he answered that he "loved that Spurrier referred to f$u as the 'school out west'". I remember many of us on the message boards giving a collective, "huh?", as none of us could remember Spurrier referring to it as the "school out west" at all.

So it seems likely that if Urbs was quoting it as being from Spurrier, that Spurrier said it, even though most of us, aside from CG and is dad, don't remember it.

InstiGATOR1 · Jan 18, 2019

Gator By Marriage said:
SOW!

Probably when someone at Harvard became jealous of either Chicago or Stanford years back.

CGgater · Jan 18, 2019

no1g8r said:
I don't remember when Spurrier said it, but I do remember the interview with Meyer when he answered that he "loved that Spurrier referred to f$u as the 'school out west'". I remember many of us on the message boards giving a collective, "huh?", as none of us could remember Spurrier referring to it as the "school out west" at all.

So it seems likely that if Urbs was quoting it as being from Spurrier, that Spurrier said it, even though most of us, aside from CG and is dad, don't remember it.

Clearly donkey doesn’t remember. And if the donk doesn’t remember it, it apparently didn’t happen.

Swamp Donkey · Jan 18, 2019

CGgater said:
Clearly donkey doesn’t remember. And if the donk doesn’t remember it, it apparently didn’t happen.

Dude I lived Gator football then, too. I also grew up in the midwest, heard the stupid Suckeyes saying "SUN" all the time and cringed the first time I heard CUM say it at UF. Not original at all.

Pablos Tunnel · Jan 18, 2019

So I just spoke with a friends father that was around the team in the 60’s and the SOW jab was a thing back then. So the plot thickens. You heard it here Gator fans. Urbs is just a dirty plagarist.

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