He's a hard-working guy with lots of integrity. I encouraged him. We need good people becoming involved in politics.

No. If there's profit, it'll go to reducing the debt. We're still carrying $30 million in debt.

If we hadn't made the playoffs, we'd have been $1 million to $1.5 million in the hole for this season.

Certainly that's our determination. Every market is different, every franchise has variations in terms of the amount of revenues and commitments to banks and leases and so on. We can only work with what we're faced with.

We plan to play a season no matter how that happens.

We needed all those foul shots for sure. We obviously came up with some clutch foul shooting down the stretch. Not only that, we overcame a big East Aurora crowd and we adjusted well to what the officials were calling.