What are you doing Feb. 5?

Catching up on school work?

Scrap booking?

Finally taking the dog to get spayed?

Attending the home basketball game against Maryland?

Or are you, like every other person in the entire world, preparing for and watching the Super Bowl?

Seriously, they watch the game everywhere. I think they have some sort of coconut television set in the South Pacific that only gets television one day a week and they choose to watch the Super Bowl.

Apparently the small amount of students who attended Campout Saturday night are the true Wolfpack fans, or maybe they just forgot what the date was, or, better yet, maybe they just wanted an excuse to go to a Campout and party with their friends and freeze their butts off. There are only a few times a year when this is a possibility. Perhaps the latter reasoning for attending Campout is the exact reason why the Athletics Department planned to hold a Campout for the not-very-important Maryland game (we admit all ACC games are important, but we’re playing Carolina in a couple weeks and the last time we checked it was “Go to Hell, Carolina!” not “Go to Hell, you crab-cake-eating turtles!”).

It is possible the Athletics Department planned the Campout to entice students to attend the Maryland game on Super Bowl Sunday. Perhaps they were sitting at a long boardroom table discussing the best way to get students psyched about a game that is, sorry to say it, second place to the largest sports event of the year. And we will give it to them, it’s a pretty good idea. Have any of you Athletics Department people considered a career in politics? You’d be good at it.

The truth is that if it turns out that a Campout for the much more important Carolina game will not happen because we already had one for the Maryland game, it will be very disappointing. Campout is a tradition that so many students hold dear and to waste it because the Athletics Department was afraid no one would show on Super Bowl Sunday is a waste of one of only a few Campouts we as students are entitled to.

It would be very cordial for the Athletics Department to plan another Campout this season for all of us who picked the Super Bowl and eating large quantities of the greasiest food imaginable over a basketball game. We’d tip our hats to you and slap our knees with excitement.