The CAA is below the A-10 and will remain so for the foreseeable future. As we've seen this year, losing VCU and ODU was devastating to the conference because they along with GMU were the only CAA members with A-10 / MVC level budgets. GMU is the only remaining CAA member that has shown a consistent committment to operating a basketball program at the highest mid-major level. All of the A-10 teams make mens basketball the highest priority in the AD budget. It's why they have larger basketball budgets and pay their coaches more than CAA teams and MAC teams for that matter. The A-10 will do the same thing this time around as when Temple and Charlote announed their departures. They'll target teams that don't sponsor scholarship football and are willing to spend at a comparable level to the rest of the conference. The A-10 is definitely taking a major hit, they'll just have more quality remaining even after the next round of losses than the CAA and MAC.