FIRST K-VILLE
little better and a little better. By my senior year, people were getting out in
line for three and four and five hours for the big games. Since there was no
policy about waiting in line, you basically just got creative.
So you guys decided you wanted to be first in line and that is why you
started K-Ville?
Well my recollection of this (which I’ve checked with the other guys who
were with me) is that the previous year, in 1985, a tent full of people had
camped out for the Washington game because they had Detlef Schrempf
who was a really great player. We had heard about that, so a couple of days
before the Carolina game we were sitting around playing quarters won-
dering, “When are we going to have to get out there?” We though 6 AM
or maybe 4 AM and then realized we might as well just go out the night
before. And someone said, you know “Why don’t we just go out now!” So,
we went up to the U-Haul store on Hillsborough Road in my car, rented as
many tents as we could fit, and brought them back here. We parked right in
front of Cameron and unloaded the tents. And someone, I think me, said,
“Shouldn’t we ask Dean Sue if we could do this” and someone else said, “Oh
no, it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission.” So we set them up and
then Friday morning students would walk by Card Gym, people saw us.
Other students started thinking this was a great idea and asking us where
we got the tents and it just kind of grew from there.
ithout any rules, did things get out of contrW ol at all?
No. We had a sign that basically said “Don’t even think about cutting this
line, we’ve been here since Thursday morning.” And most of the people
who were there in the front of the line were Air Force ROTC guys, muscular
guys, so we really didn’t have any problems. It was just such a new, novel
thing and all of the people there in the front of the line knew each other.
How many people were in that first group?
There were four tents of us who kind of knew each other. I’d say there were
probably 14, 15 people total in the four tents. We got out there two days
before the UNC game. It was on a Saturday and we went out on a Thursday
night.
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