The weather was gloomy, with dark skies and rain falling for most of the day.

For the Rutgers football team, the gassers were probably worse than the weather.

Kenny Britt said he counted 13, but it seemed like a lot more at the end of the first day of on-field preparation for Saturday's game against Norfolk State.

Greg Schiano hadn't been thrilled with the way some player performed in practice, so the gassers piled up at the end of the day.

"We were a little bit sluggish," Britt said. "I think it was because it was a muggy day and everything. School started and everything, and its muggy, you can feel it out here."

"It has to do with some situations that are internal that we handled," was all Schiano said about the extra running.

A few other notable quotes from Schiano, who touched on a couple of interesting topics:

On reports that Rutgers fans were heard taunting Navy players during last Friday's game: "Like any situation..I didn't hear it, I've got two headsets on and I'm trying to coach a game but certainly there are reputable people who are saying it took place so it's always, in any of those situations, its a couple of people who cross the line and they make a bad name for everyone. We have the best fans in college football, I believe that. Just a couple of people probably crossed the line and it shouldn't have happened. And certainly when you're dealing with. It shouldn't happen with anybody. It shouldn't happen with any opponent, but then you throw on top of it the people who are going to defend our country. It's just, it's not something that should happen. But the thing I'm sorry about is, No. 1 that any opponent has to hear that stuff if it's true, which I suppose it is, No. 2, that all our fans now get a smear on them because a couple of people said the wrong things."

On fans booing college players in general: I don't like it. I've coached in the NFL and they're getting paid a lot of money, and you know what? People pay a lot of money to go to those games and they're getting paid a lot of money. That's their business. But college kids, the next person that tells me, 'Well, they have a scholarship,', take the hourly wage of that scholarship for what these kids do, and it might be a penny an hour, so there's no right to boo college kids. You want to boo me? They pay me a lot of money, they can boo me all they want, but don't boo the kids."

On the possibility that Ryan D'Imperio could play Saturday against Navy: "I'd rather be a week or two late than a day early, but he keeps telling me he's all right so we'll see."

On remembering September 11, 2001, which was six years ago to the day: "I remember the day vividly. I don't remember the first game (after the attacks). It was today, it was a Tuesday. This has been the first Tuesday since. We were sitting in the game plan room this morning. I can remember standing at the board when one of the assistants stuck their head in, when I first heard about it....We actually went out and practiced that afternoon. We got all the kids here, we circled them up and we had two kids that didnt know at the time if their family members were there or not. Thank God they weren't. We got in a team meeting and we said, 'we're not going to play on Saturday' and 'what do you want to do?' and they said, "Let's just go out and practice, stay busy,' so we went out and practiced."

I'm back to the living room to catch some Baseball Tonight. I've got desk duty tomorrow and Friday, and the day off Thursday, so this will be my last report from practice before the Knights take on Norfolk State. But there's plenty of college football stuff in today's paper, and there will be plenty more every day between now and Game Day.

The Rutgers blog is back in action Saturday with the usual pre-game posts and in-game updates. Looking forward to talking to you then.