Moving the conference tournament from Richmond to Baltimore for the first time in more than two decades is also causing plenty of angst and excitement for the CAA.
"For all the challenges we face with scheduling, 18 conference games was something good for our schools," CAA commissioner Tom Yeager said.
The next movement out of the CAA could be James Madison, which is weighing what it will do with football. If it were to upgrade, then the first phone call could be to join ODU in C-USA. If that were to happen, then C-USA would have to grab one more school to get to an even number, likely looking toward the Sun Belt again.
"I'm not too concerned at this point," Yeager said of JMU leaving.
New Sun Belt commissioner Karl Benson knew when he was jumping off the then-sinking WAC ship in February 2012 that the Sun Belt would be grossly affected by alignment.
"We added seven and lost five," he said. "While I didn't want us to go through that, we did well."
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