If you could willy-nilly pick up existing conferences, smash them on the ground into pieces like a pane of glass, and then reassemble the pieces as you saw fit ..... then sure, some of what he says does make some sense. A conference that was formed in the 1960's between Gonzaga, EW, Idaho, Idaho St, Boise, Utah St, Montana/State, Wyoming, and the Dakotas, might have worked out very well. Though unfortunate that no major schools in Bismarck, Dickinson/Williston, Pierre, Rapid City, or Billings ...

But you can't. It isn't a thing. So his ideas are basically meaningless.