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Scout Team [180]
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Just out of curiosity... Why do Coots call us
Dec 11, 2016, 1:47 PM
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Taters?
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All-In [30912]
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Same reason we call them coots. It's funny***
Dec 11, 2016, 1:48 PM
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Scout Team [180]
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Re: Same reason we call them coots. It's funny***
Dec 11, 2016, 1:49 PM
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Yeah but coots actually makes sense. Taters doesn't.
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Clemson is the agricultural university of SC
Dec 11, 2016, 2:09 PM
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They're basically calling us farmers/country bumpkins to their urbane sophistication.
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I have fully embraced it.***
Dec 11, 2016, 2:11 PM
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Legend [18133]
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Indeed
Dec 11, 2016, 2:15 PM
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Might as well have fun with it, since it will never go away.
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DUDE Does Spud know you have a camera in his bedroom???
Dec 11, 2016, 5:40 PM
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Wow is all I can say!
Go Tigers!!!
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I could be wrong, but
Dec 11, 2016, 2:04 PM
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I think it goes back to 2001, when we played on the blue field for the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho. The late 90s and early 2000s weren't great for Clemson football, and it was sort of a joke bowl.
Since it was in Idaho, home of many potatoes, I believe the nickname started then.
But I could be wrong. It's been known to happen.
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No
Dec 11, 2016, 2:07 PM
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It's supposedly because we're all farmers and grow potatoes.
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Re: I could be wrong, but
Dec 11, 2016, 4:59 PM
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I heard from a Carolina fan it is bc Clemson has a great agriculture program.... agriculture... growing... that's how they came up with "tater". Just hear say.
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The difference is that we actually embrace "Tater" while ...
Dec 11, 2016, 9:31 PM
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Being called a "Coot" irritates them no end.
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Coots are worthless birds that most people don't even
Dec 12, 2016, 2:04 AM
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know about and can't identify.
Potatoes are one of the worlds most important staples that almost everyone [except for coots] needs and loves.
Quite simple really.
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IPTAY acronym...
Dec 11, 2016, 2:07 PM
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I Pick Taters All Year
It's a supposed slight, that has been around for decades, against our agricultural heritage as if any of those deluded ignorant inbreds could survive without the advancements in agriculture.
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^^^^DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!^^^***
Dec 11, 2016, 2:17 PM
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Re: IPTAY acronym...
Dec 11, 2016, 3:15 PM
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Farming is a noble trade and far too few of us are getting into it. Average age of a Farmer in America is 57. If there isn't a some recruiting done in this industry and fast, expect food prices to quadruple in the next decade or so.
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Re: IPTAY acronym...
Dec 11, 2016, 3:24 PM
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T otally A nnihilated by T hen E xposed R egularly
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The millennials will just...
Dec 11, 2016, 5:46 PM
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order their food on-line!
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Re: IPTAY acronym...
Dec 11, 2016, 5:47 PM
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The large corporations having future farming covered Its a shame its not a family thing anymore
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Re: IPTAY acronym...
Dec 11, 2016, 10:14 PM
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Average age of the SC farmer is 64. By the way, with the drought in California being so bad they are buying up land in SC left and right.
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Definition of coots...
Dec 11, 2016, 5:44 PM
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per BigCUFan: "deluded ignorant inbreds"
I think it is very fitting!!!
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which adds to their legendary ignorance
Dec 11, 2016, 7:21 PM
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you don't pick potatoes, you dig them up. I wouldn't expect a coot, living behind a dumpster in downtown Columbia to understand this
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I Plant Taters All Year
Dec 12, 2016, 5:18 AM
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is the acronym
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All-TigerNet [10498]
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Yeah "plant" is the version I've heard
Dec 12, 2016, 9:17 AM
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From my coot buddies.
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Re: IPTAY acronym...
Dec 12, 2016, 8:03 AM
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> I > Pick > Taters > All > Year > > It's a supposed slight, that has been around for > decades, against our agricultural heritage as if any > of those deluded ignorant inbreds could survive > without the advancements in agriculture.
I always heard the coots say
It's Probation Time Again Y'all
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Re: Just out of curiosity... Why do Coots call us
Dec 11, 2016, 2:12 PM
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It's because they were told that Clemson is northwest of them so they think we're a school in Idaho. They're not very good at geography.
Most probably came about because we started as an agricultural college. I've heard the word "taters" used by Coots since at least the late 90s.
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Re: Just out of curiosity... Why do Coots call us
Dec 11, 2016, 3:19 PM
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because we are all a bunch of dumb hick farmers and it rhymes with IPTAY.
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Yeah.... I once made thread asking if I'm supposed to feel offended if I'm called a tater....
Dec 11, 2016, 3:24 PM
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I'm mean #### I love taters!!!!!!
Fried taters! Baked taters! Cheesy taters! Chopped taters! Shredded taters!
Etc,etc,etc.......
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I've always heard it was because back during the great
Dec 11, 2016, 4:47 PM
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depression, some IPTAY members traded food for their IPTAY fees:
http://www.clemsontigers.com/fls/28500/old_site/pdf/iptay/IPTAY_SEP_brochure.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=28500
The organization was first established as a secret organization and initial membership dues were set at $10.00 a year (I Pay Ten A Year). A little more than $1,600.00 came into the coffers the first year of IPTAY, even in the heart of the Great Depression. Some payments were made in the form of barter. Milk, sweet potatoes, turnip greens, and the like were accepted in the initial efforts to build membership
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Re: I've always heard it was because back during the great
Dec 11, 2016, 10:46 PM
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The phrase does originate out of their put down during the Great Depression per my late Father, class of 1944. Having done post-graduate study at USuck for a year, trust me when I say half their fans, especially the current generation have no idea of the heritage of either institution nor do they seem to care.
As long as Clemson continues to win a majority of meetings in the coming years it won't matter what their ignorant fans call us! All we have to say in reply is one word. Loser sounds most appropriate!
Go Tigers!
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It comes from a bumper sticker they made
Dec 11, 2016, 9:55 PM
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IPTAY. I Plant Taters Avery Year. I have caught flack from some T betters for my handle but I am proud of my agricultural heritage of my anscestors and my university. I'm a Clemson Man and a Dead Fan so I'm a Tater and A Head, don't like it, don't really care
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Re: It comes from a bumper sticker they made
Dec 12, 2016, 6:22 AM
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When I was a kid, the gamecock fans always said that IPTAY stood for I Plow Twice A Year. I haven't heard the tater acronym.
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Actually, little known fact...
Dec 12, 2016, 6:47 AM
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It's actually a term used on THEM as it started with an abbreviation of a phrase they say:
"WaiT Until lATER" - said every Coot in this "rivalry"
Hence, 'TATERs
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because...56-7
Dec 12, 2016, 8:31 AM
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Didn't have time to meme it up with the ancient alien dude..but use yer imaginations.
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Re: Just out of curiosity... Why do Coots call us
Dec 12, 2016, 2:09 PM
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Don't know and done care what they do or say in Columbia. They aren't us and never will be.
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