Earlier this week, Jon Scheyer, Lance Thomas and Kyle Singler caught up with Krzyzewskiville Head Line Monitor Roberto Bazzani just outside K-Ville. The players learned some of K-Ville’s inside details from the Duke senior in charge of maintaining order in the tent city and ensuring the undergraduate section of Cameron is as packed as possible.
RB: Unfortunately, the fire marshal is kind of a nuisance in that sense. They can’t have anything inside their tents that provides heat because they are pretty flammable.
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JS: How long have people been tenting so far and when is the date of the game they are tenting for?
RB: The first tent got out here December 6th so they have been out here for over a month now. The first game they are tenting for is the Maryland game, which is February 13th, and then the second game is the UNC game obviously, which is March 8th. So, they’ll be out here for awhile.
KS: Roberto, are you a tenter yourself?
RB: I have been in the past, but not anymore. I can’t handle the cold weather as well as some of these kids can.
JS: What is the coolest thing you have seen in a tent this year?
RB: We’ll call it a ping-pong table — Maybe not specifically for ping-pong. They have TVs in there, they hook up X-Box. They pretty much move their dorm rooms out here. It is pretty nice.
LT: How does the tenting process work? Does someone have to be in the tent at all times?
RB: They have to have one person at all times during the day and then at night time they have to have eight people there from 10 until 7 AM Sunday through Thursday night. On Friday and Saturday night, they get to go out a little later, so they have to have eight there from 2 AM to 10 AM.
JS: How many people are in each tent group?
RB: 12 per tent, so they rotate and have schedules.
LT: What about the really small tents? What are those used for?
RB: Those are the supply tents. They keep their wet shoes and other stuff in there.
KS: What is bed time out here? What time do people usually go to sleep?
RB: It depends on the night. There are people out here that stay up until 2 AM just hanging out and talking, and there are people who go to bed around 10. It is just like the dorms, whatever people want.
KS: How many tents are out here now?
RB: There are about 27 right now. In a couple weeks it will pick up and there will be about 100 tents out here.
JS: Alright, thanks Roberto, can we maybe check out some tents.
RB: Yeah no problem…
JS: Let’s do it.
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