Yeah, here is the article. No need to file a FOIA, the DNR aLready did back in August.
https://jamesmadison.rivals.com/news/not-in-the-cards-3
In another article/interview Bourne said he had 4 to 6 games lined up when JMU pulled the plug and Alger decided to cancel Fall sports. This was back on August 7th which was 4 weeks before the season started. How many yes answers could they have received between August 7th and now? We don’t know because they waived the white flag and stopped asking.
We see that 144 D-1 teams played football this Fall. 2 of the schools that played were ones that already had a contract with JMU coming into 2020.
@UNC
Home vs Chattanooga
That would be the starting point of “what if”.
JMU had 2 games in the bag. How many more could they have secured as possible opponents became open due to quarantine? Nobody has a sure answer, but I think the answer is at least something more than 2+0.
Factor in the CAA’s decision to create a 6 game CAA Spring Season and JMU could have stopped at 3, 4, or 5 Fall games and remained eligible to compete in the Spring too.
And Alger still refuses to talk about why he feels this was a good decision as he sees he is on an island with yet another athletics faux pas.
This one surpasses his covert midnight penning of the anti-COA manifesto back in 2015 along with 8 other presidents of universities that have tiddlywinks athletics programs. He was called out on that and became mute, then eventually relented and changed his position.