Ohio State's football and basketball rivalries were altered for 50 years by a single, ham-fisted coaching search in Wisconsin.
Three months later, the men's basketball team concluded a putrid 6-20 season. A 2-16 conference record was tucked into that embarrassment, and Taylor chose retirement in lieu of further decline. There's going out with a bang, and there's fading away. This was the latter.
Replacing two legends at blue-blood programs requires a) elite organizational recruitment, and b) fortuitous timing. Ohio State replaced its giants with Earle Bruce and Eldon Miller. Ann Arbor and Bloomington are Columbus' blue-blood neighbors. Michigan football and Indiana basketball are unapproachable in an Ohio State coaching search, both in the 1970s as well as today. The political consequences for making those overtures would be too high, both for the Buckeyes as well as the coach.
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