With the proximity of the stadium seating to home plate and to the actual playing surface, it was necessary that the netting go up. We just felt it was a needed issue.

It takes a large group of people to make everything work. It takes a lot of work and a lot of effort to put on a tournament like this. It's fine-tuned to minute.

It was no problem whatsoever.

This is obviously the first step. You can't get a home game without making the playoffs, and we took care of that.

[NOTES: Rutgers opens the preseason on Nov. 12 at Bucknell and the regular season Nov. 20 at home against Austin Peay... .Waters said that 6-10 freshman forward/center Zack Gibson, one of seven frontcourt players, could be red-shirted.] That's a feasibility, ... The positive thing is that the NCAA has a new rule in effect, and that new rule is you can play them in the two exhibition games and make a decision after that.

When you're a minister you're all over the place. When you're mayor you can get home for dinner. If the voters select her, I think it would be a much different family lifestyle.