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CheckmateApostates t1_j3jtt3o wrote

Reply to comment by NF-104 in University Of Washington or Washington State Uni better for Electrical Engineering? by SwiftS021

No one calls it Wazzu anymore

Edit: Gotta love getting downvoted by alumni who haven't been to Pullman since Bill Doba was coach lmao. If any of you ever come back to Pullman, call the university "Wazzu" and see what reaction you get from the people who live and work there. It's nothing but nostalgia for a bygone era, and alumni living on the west side apparently never got the message.

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lvcoug t1_j3k2lne wrote

That is absolutely false, a ton of Cougs call it Wazzu and we even had a football game this year where they put “Wazzu” in script on the side of our helmets. There was an attempt by administration a while back to shed the name but it’s been fully embraced at this point.

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Designer_Hotel_5210 t1_j3k4cwh wrote

Everyone calls it Wazzu. It's been that for as long as I can remember and I'm 63.

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CheckmateApostates t1_j3kw10s wrote

I lived in Pullman for 14 years up until 2020 and we stopped calling it that sometime around 2004. The latest thing on the helmets is just a nostalgia push.

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CheckmateApostates t1_j3kxiyt wrote

They did a pretty good job of shedding it because that was name was long gone by the time Elson Floyd showed up.

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Lobster_fest t1_j480wxf wrote

Sorry man, every current student I know of calls it wazzu.

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