Late 2000's, Marist sued JMU and the Commonwealth of Va for interference of the execution of the BB Coach's contract, who left Marist for JMU and also took 4 of their BB recruits(Court found that a Coach must
abide by their contract and other institutions must respect the contract.
If the contract is breached, damages will be assessed.)

Probably available via a FOIA request. A lot of holes in the story on the timing of the ISU AD traveling to Detroit. Not even sure if that is true, i.e. the availability a last minute commercial flight from Des Moines to Detroit on a busy Thanksgiving weekend just sounds fishy in and of itself. A private flight into Toledo Express or Executive airports seems more plausible to me.