Harvard historian Arthur Schlesinger famously penned the work Tides of American Politics, where he created what’s known as the “cyclical theory.”
Schlesinger asserted there would always be a a struggle between two groups: one fighting for progress despite the risk of chaos, and the other struggling to maintain the status quo.
Fun fact: He was born in Columbus, Ohio.
Near the end of the Lloyd Carr era, an over-reliance on the past slowly sapped the Michigan program into a decade-long sclerosis. A quick look at the late Carr-era coaching staffs shows two failed head coaches in Mike Debord and Ron English and a smattering of career assistants.