We're caught up on the 2023 class (or at least we were until the commitapalooza last night) but there are still a couple of 2024s who pledged during the season. We'll start with the largest of them, and also the second Ohioan of Harbaugh's latest sojourn into territory that's recently come under Michigan dominion. Despite being a(n almost) consensus top-250 in his class, and likely to stick there, Luke Hamilton isn't a 45-23…more of a 29-7. The Buckeyes gave Hamilton a private workout at the OSU camp last summer, but held back on an offer. MSU got him on campus thrice, but Michigan beat Ohio State on November 26th, and Hamilton had a reaction. “When that clock ran out and I saw that score, I was super hyped, especially from watching how the offensive line played,” Hamilton told The Wolverine. “I was ecstatic. Coach Moore was hyped when I asked if I could call him. He said ‘of f course. I’m not leaving until you do.’ Once I told him, he told
The day after Michigan crushed Ohio State in Columbus last fall, Luke Fickell was announced as the Badgers' new head coach, and two Badger commits, 6'3"/290 DT Roderick "Trey" Pierce III and 6'2"/320 NT Jamel Howard, reopened their recruitments. On Wednesday night Michigan completed the first half of an attempted double-flip of Wisconsin's DT class. Pierce, the higher-ranked one, has been rising over the cycle. When he committed to Wisconsin last May he was close the 1,000s, and had slipped into them by fall. Senior tape started to change opinions dramatically. He crossed the 4-star line at Rivals earlier this month and might be heading that way on a couple of the other sites. That senior tape, and the explanation for why it changed so many opinions, came with a major new body and new position; Pierce was a 245-pound defensive end this time last year. He's now listed at 290 to the two sites that update that the most frequently, and 285 to Ri