The Buckeyes built a talent base in that two-year run so that there shouldn't be a rebuilding year
In a recent episode of his podcast Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell applied Chris Anderson and David Sally’s argument about weak and strong links to the US education system. Their original argument was about soccer teams — essentially, they argue that improving the quality of the worst players on a soccer team is more important than getting superstar players. Another way, it’s better to raise a team’s floor players than to raise the team’s ceiling players.
Their argument doesn’t apply to all sports — in fact, basketball is almost the opposite from soccer.