Maybe this should be the next step in realignment.

If teams want to switch conferences, how about we find some new conferences that might actually make sense?

The biggest culpret for the next wave of conference realignment is the Big East.  In fact, it's already starting to happen.  I'm not sure if that news about Boise joining is official yet.

Either the Big East is trying to attract teams, or they are going to lose everyone and have to close up shop.  For a while, they've been the gateway for teams to get to a bigger and better conference (as VT, BC, and Miami did, and most of the former C-USA schools hope to do), but maybe it's time to admit that they are just a glorified mid-major conference.  I don't see there being a way for the Big East to remain one of the AQ conferences.  There just aren't enough top quality teams that aren't already aligned.

Perhaps there needs to be a three way merger and split between the Big East, C-USA, and Mountain West?

The Big East will have five teams left after Pitt, Syracuse, and West Virginia leave.  They usually like to raid C-USA anyway for replacements, and the C-USA East Division has teams that fit well into a geographic range a conference with "East" in the name should have.  There's six extra teams right there, for a total of 11.

Big East:  Louisville, Cincinnati, Rutgers, Connecticut, South Florida
C-USA East:  Southern Miss, Marshall, East Carolina, UAB, Central Florida, Memphis

Mountain West will be down to 7 teams after TCU leaves, so they can merge with C-USA's West Division.  (After all, we're probably getting that MW/CUSA hybrid soon.)  That would be a 13 team conference.  Either they push a team over to the East, find another team to make 14, or maybe Boise State makes the jump to the big leagues and gets pulled into the Big 12?

Mountain West:  Wyoming, San Diego State, Air Force, Colorado State, UNLV, New Mexico, Boise State
C-USA West:  Houston, Tulsa, Southern Methodist, Rice, UTEP, Tulane

I don't think that western conference would be able to pull in a BCS bid as it stands now.  But either way, it still sounds better than having a Big East East and Big East West.