OK, I'm going to clip the negative comment, and give you a chance, because I'm intrigued at your statement here. The TAAC has had, for most of its existence, a brutal reputation for being among the weakest small-school football conferences in the state. The post-MAL SRL was not much better. I'm interested to see where you think that a "really good league" would arise in this area.
Mainly, I'm interested because in the progressive collapse of the SLL, MAL, and old-SBC, I was thinking of something similar. With the knowledge that the TAAC was dangerously unstable, geographically, looking like a dumbbell, two far to the west in Williams County, two the west of the river in metro-Toledo, two the east of the river, and one far to the east, Gibsonburg becoming the second; it only held because of the symmetry of the comical shape. Once Montpelier started looking, and Stryker started to make plans to form a team, the shape was about to go from 2-2-2-2 to 4-2-2-2, and restructuring was going to be inevitable. Foreseeing this possibility, during the collapse, I recommended a "TAAC-East" and "TAAC-West", picking up any and all GMC, BBC, NWOAL, SLL, SBC, and MAL schools feeling pressure to make a change. It would've given a ready reserve of schools within the same established organization to restructure around if smaller schools became unable to field teams, 8-man not being a "thing" a few years ago. I think that this arrangement would be more stable than what existed then, and certainly what exists now, but I don't see how any combination of these schools would've made for a particularly strong football conference. None of these schools have very good, understatement, post-season histories. And, as far as being a death spiral to 8-man, I think that a lot of small-school conferences are going to have to come to grips with that, including both the SBC and TAAC; which is why I think it'd've been better to have them all under one roof, rather than being left to try to pilfer from one another.
You claim that changing conferences represented an "easy route", but I see neither the panacea "greater TAAC" conference, nor a route to get there.