Prove it.
“According to the “official” history on UConn’s athletics site, that chant tradition “began in the late ’80s after Big Red felt that UConn spirit needed some extra support in leading their chants.
UConn Magazine (University publication) also places the origin in the early 1980s and describes Emery launching the chant because the cheerleaders’ prompts weren’t getting a response.
UConn’s official athletics site, however, describes the tradition as beginning in the late ’80s, so there’s a discrepancy between the university’s short official history and multiple long-form profiles of Emery (the 1982 date is the one most secondary sources attribute to him).”