Georgia State leaving the CAA for the Sun Belt Conference

The news of Georgia State University leaving the CAA for the Sun Belt conference took me by surprise. I was surprised because the CAA just signed a television deal with NBC Sports network. Georgia State has been in the CAA since 2005 and before that they were in the Sun Belt. Georgia State was one of the founding schools of the Sun Belt Conference.

 I believe the surprise of changing Conference by GSU has to do with football, just like all the others. Georgia State University did not have an active football program until 2010 and the next season will be their only season in the CAA before they join the Sun Belt conference in all sports. Georgia State will have to pay the CAA $250,000 exit fee and then they have to pay $300,000 to enter the Sun Belt Conference. Georgia State becomes the 11^th football school in the Sun Belt conference and the Sun Belt wants to add one more football school to the conference.

However I wonder what is the CAA going to do now that Georgia State University is leaving the CAA. I believe that the CAA will replace another school in GSU spot. Some of the rumored schools to replace GSU are Radford, VMI, Costal Carolina, Davidson and UNC- Charlotte. I believe the best school to replace GSU would be Davidson. Davidson would be a great replacement because in the last few years their basketball program has done really well. The CAA is known best for its basketball schools, so adding a school like Davidson would be a plus. Another reason that Davidson is a good fit for the CAA is because it is in Charlotte, North Carolina giving the CAA another big market to go into. So what you think the CAA will do about Georgia State leaving? Who do you think they will find to replace GSU?