FIRST K-VILLE
Kim shares her original K-Ville photo album with staff members Laura Ann Howard and Dave
Bradley while pointing to the site where the first tent in K-Ville history was pitched.
What did you guys do to pass the time?
We stayed in and around the tents pretty much the whole time for two-and-a-half days. We had a keg. We played
a lot of cards. We did homework. A couple of these guys were ranked at the very top of the class. I had tennis
practice so I walked over to the tennis courts and played and came back. We had a little hibachi, so we barbecued
some hotdogs on sticks and we tried to barbecue marshmallows but that was a miserable failure. We had a con-
test to see who could smash beer cans against their foreheads, and that also was miserable. We just goofed around
doing the same things they do now.
What was the national media coverage like for that game?
It had no impact at all on our decision to go tent. It never occurred to us that this would be picked up by the
media. Only a couple games a year were televised back then. This particular game was televised by NBC Sports.
When the NBC van got there and pulled up between Cameron and Card Gym and saw us in these tents, they were
basically like, “What are you guys doing?” They came out and talked to us and showed us in the pregame and
went down a whole line of students.
How does the atmosphere in Cameron then compare to now?
I feel a lot of people who graduated in the 70’s and 80’s always say, “Oh, when I was here the crowd was so much
better.” And I don’t see that. I think the crowd is always great. One thing that has changed was that we used
to be able to get away with a lot more in terms of risky chants, things that were really pushing the envelope, that
Coach K just doesn’t put up with now.
So the Crazies generally are still as loud but maybe not as “mean”?
I think that’s right, and I think part of that has to do with Coach K drawing lines. He decided we’re going to be
classier and we’re not going to cross those lines. There have been times when he’s been displeased with a cheer
and he’ll just outright say “Stop it!” But I can give so many examples back then when you would say stuff that
would really get under someone’s skin. On the other hand, though. we didn’t have “Speedo Guy.”
How many games do you usually attend each season now?
I probably come down to three games for the regular season and then we go to the ACC Tournament and we
always go to the Final Four. We flew from Russia to the Final Four twice!
SPECIAL THANKS TO KIM FOR SHARING HER MEMORIES AND PHOTOS...
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