(11-22-2020 11:12 AM)AssyrianDuke Wrote:  

(11-22-2020 10:32 AM)Hart Foundation Wrote:  

(11-21-2020 08:31 PM)GaryMatthews Wrote:  

(11-21-2020 06:46 PM)Hart Foundation Wrote:  I didn’t realize Abilene Christian was able to schedule a game with UVA until I just saw the ticker scoreboard. Oof, that hurts a little more.
It is impossible to justify JMU forfeiting the Fall. It is no wonder that Alger is not returning communication from Alumni.

JMU tried to schedule UVA and quite a few other regional FBS teams but had no takers

Your statement fails to account for 2 things.
1- JMU already had a contracted game with FBS UNC
2- JMU stopped trying on August 7th four weeks before the season began. Of course you’ve noticed how many games have been rescheduled and opponents swapped due to COVID in the last 3 1/2 months. 70+ games have been cancelled/posptponed creating all kinds of opportunity to turn a “no” into a “yes”.

Those programs that were playing scooped up the scheduling openings while JMU sat on the sidelines and forfeited the Fall.

It sounds like you are suggesting that JMU should have gone ahead with, at best, one game this fall and then offered itself up to any and all teams that had a game cancelled. Am I understanding that correctly?

No, you aren’t understanding the full picture I was trying to discuss and I didn’t supply enough info. At the time JMU cancelled the season, Bourne started he had 4 to 6 games lined up.
2 teams who were Already contracted with JMU played this Fall, UNC And Chattanooga. So JMU had a home game and an away game in the bag plus whatever Bourne had accumulated as per his statement. With the CAA’s announcement That the Spring conference season would Only be 6 games, JMU could have played up to 5 OOC games and remained eligible to play in the Spring.
Who knows what JMU could have procured in addition to UNC and Chattanooga? What we can agree on is that there was a ton of opportunity with last minute COVID cancellations and teams begging for an opponent (sometimes just to ensure they got a full payout for a TV game and didn’t have to prorate their contract due to reduced inventory).