Things were supposed to be different this season for Michigan football...a returning starter at quarterback, all three non-conference games at home, yadda yadda blah blah...

So why is the result looking all too familiar, as supposed number three in the country Michigan totally tanked on offense and lost to underdog Notre Dame 17-10?

Once again, Michigan was outcoached and outplayed by a team they should have beat. Once again the Wolverine faithful are in the position of hoping that Michigan can somehow win the rest of their games and have enough other things happen for Michigan to have a national championship shot.

Of course, Michigan has also tended (in addition to losing a non-conference game) to also blow at least one Big Ten contest in any given season with the exception of the magical 1997 national championship run. And of course, two losses basically eliminates you from the national race.

More and more I am inclined to believe that the Michigan football program needs a Regime Change. I like Lloyd Carr as a person, but he and his staff appear to be stuck in the 1950s or 1970s at best in terms of their strategy and game planning. They just keep doing the same things that stopped working decades ago and wonder why these things do not work consistently anymore.

The program had another period similar to this one, from the late 50s to 1968 when Bump Elliot was head coach. Then in 1969 they looked outside the program and hired a guy by the name of Schembechler who revived Michigan's fortunes. Since then the program has hired from within and in my opinion has once again become stale and stagnant.

I would like to see Lloyd Carr stay around as an assistant AD or maybe (if Bill Martin is ready to step down) as AD. But it is becoming more and more clear that the football program needs new leadership with fresh thinking.