Delaware isn't leaving the CAA anytime soon. Patrick Harker, their president, has been publicly vocal about the fact that UD has no intention of reclassifying or changing conferences in the near-term. UD's plan is to wait out realingment in the FBS power conferences and then assess the situation at that point. CAA football isn't in danger of imploding and as long as UD feels it has a safe home there, they'll stay put.

As for Davidson, they turned down the CAA when it had GMU. Why on earth would they leave an unstable, one-bid conference to join another unstable, one-bid conference that would result in Davidson having much higher travel expenses? The same holds true for the other private schools in the SoCon.

The most likely scenario for the CAA is that they start poaching from America East. Five of the eight remaining CAA members came there from AEast and most of the AEast members are also affiliate members of the CAA already.