RIP Blaine Taylor's 'stache

Old Dominion's basketball team is going to look much different next season.

Four of their top five scorers graduates, including big men Frank Hassell and Ben Finney. With 58.5% of their scoring and 55% of their rebounding going pro in something other than sports, guys like Trian Iliadis and Chris Cooper are going to be counted on to provide Kent Bazemore with some support.

So with a new crop of front court players next season, its probably safe to say that the rough and tumble Old Dominion teams that we have come to know and love won't be quite as rough or as tumble next season.

But that's that the biggest change the Monarchs will undergo.

You see, for the first time since he was playing at Montana in the late 1970's, ODU head coach Blaine Taylor is mustache-less. The Virginia-Pilot broke the unfortunate news:

"I'd been contemplating it for a few years, just kind of cutting it off," he said Thursday.

Taylor did so unannounced, stunning his four adult daughters who had never seen their father clean-shaven.

Mustachioed men are no longer the popular look.

These days, folks that grow a flavor-saver are doing so to be ironic. Or to be funny. Or because they are planning on starring in To Catch a Predator. Taylor's mustache was a throwback, a relic from another era when mustaches were cool and guys like Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck were American Idols.

With Blaine Taylor's decision to bust out the bic, a little piece of american history was washed down the drain.

Take not, Evan Fjeld.

Losing the 'stache may lose you some fans.