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We're now totally caught up on recent Hellos, which means it's time to backtrack and give a Hello to a player we missed  earlier in the cycle: Hogan Hansen. The 4* TE from Bellevue, WA, committed to Michigan on December 8, 2022, which is when the recruiting focus was all trained on more pressing targets. When the spotlight shifted to 2024, we forgot we owed Hansen a Hello and it slipped through the cracks. But after combing through the content for last week's podcast, it came back to my attention, so let's give the other TE in the '24 class the welcome post he deserves: 

 

GURU RATINGS 

RATINGS BY SITE

247: 6'6/220

On3: 6'3/230

Rivals: 6'5/210

ESPN: 6'6/220

4*, 92, #107 Ovr

#10 TE, #2 WA
4*, 91, #228 Ovr

#16 TE, #3 WA
4*, 5.8, NR Ovr

#27 TE, #4 WA
4*, 81, #285 Ovr

#16 TE-H, #4 WA
4.29 4.05 3.87 4.04

COMPOSITE RANKINGS

247 Composite

On3 Consensus

MGoBlog

 
4*, 0.9215, #199 Ovr

#12 TE, #3 WA
4*, 91.79, #171 Ovr

#14 TE, #3 WA
4*, #330/798 Ovr

#14/52 TEs since 1990
4.22 4.18 4.08

Hansen is a highly rated recruit, inside the top 200 of both the 247 Composite and the On3 Consensus ranking. 247 is the highest on Hansen, slotting him at 107th nationally, which is a pretty nice indicator. On3 and ESPN both have Hansen in that 200-300 range, while Rivals is the most bearish. The result is Hansen being rated as a top 15 TE prospect in the country and the 14th best TE recruit Michigan has gotten since 1990 according to our database. There is a bit of a discrepancy in the measurables listed in the table, as Hansen is still at 6'3 on On3, whereas he's 6'5 or 6'6 elsewhere. Not sure what the cause of that issue is but the hunch is recency. The disagreements about weight are much more normal, between 210 and 230 depending on site. 

[AFTER THE JUMP: this guy sounds like a Michigan TE to me]

[Patrick Barron]

Mooch'd. Shemy Schembechler came, and then he went. Warde Manuel:

"Effective this afternoon, Shemy Schembechler has resigned his position with Michigan Football. We are aware of some comments and likes on social media that have caused concern and pain for individuals in our community. Michigan Athletics is fully committed to a place where our coaches, staff and student-athletes feel welcome and where we fully support the University's and Athletic Department's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion."

Schembechler got booted for his twitter account, which had dozens and dozens of likes on posts ranging between debatably racist and obviously racist. The ESPN story linked about asserts that "a source with knowledge of the situation told ESPN that Schembechler went through a thorough background check during the hiring process," which uh no he did not. When your background check misses publicly available information it was not thorough. Or even a "check," really.

Add it to the "What The Hell Is Warde Manuel Doing?" files. This is currently an athletic department that's winning the most important game on the schedule and doing very little else right. At this point the number of unforced PR errors that the department is stumbling into like so many rakes in front of Sideshow Bob is, dare I say it, Brandonesque. Articles are rolling in with titles like "Michigan leadership continues to embarrass itself" from places like The Athletic—not exactly the RCMB.

Shemy released a statement repudiating his hundreds of endorsements of racist right wing tweets, for what little that's worth.

[After the JUMP: anonymous quotes article woo]

[Rochester Adams Football (Facebook)]

Michigan landed a commitment from their second 4* TE of the 2024 recruiting class today in Rochester Adams (MI) TE Brady Prieskorn

Prieskorn announced yesterday that he would be committing on Tuesday, a date that came out of the blue but his ultimate destination did not. As a program that loves themselves some TEs and Prieskorn being an in-stater, it always seemed extremely likely that Michigan and Prieskorn would end up together. Now it's time for his long-awaited Hello: 

GURU RATINGS

RATINGS BY SITE

247: 6'6/225

On3: 6'5/220

Rivals: 6'6/215

ESPN: 6'6/215

4*, 93, #95 Ovr

#7 TE, #2 MI
4*, 93, #92 Ovr

#5 TE, #1 MI
4*, 5.9, #67 Ovr

#3 TE, #4 MI
4*, 84, #92 Ovr

#1 TE-Y, #2 MI
4.42 4.47 4.55 4.60

COMPOSITE RANKINGS

247 Composite

On3 Consensus

MGoBlog

 
4*, 0.9687, #56 Ovr

#2 TE, #2 MI
4*, 94.04, #66 Ovr

#5 TE, #2 MI
4.5*, #129/784 Ovr

#4/52 TEs since 1990
4.69 4.40 4.50

Not much disagreement here about Prisekorn being a highly touted recruit. All four sites have him between 67th and 95th overall in the 2024 recruiting class, among the top five TEs in the country and one of the very best prospects in the state of Michigan. Prieskorn checks in as a 4.5 star on our five star scale and ranks 4th out of 52 in TEs that Michigan has landed since 1990. In case you're wondering, the only TEs ranking higher than Prieskorn are Gordon Laro (1990), Tim Massaquoi (2001), and Devin Asiasi (2016). One note from Seth: Laro is a bit of an asterisk because 1990-92 era recruiting was "What did Tom Lemming think?" and Tom Lemming's process was to ask some coaches he knows who's good. 

[AFTER THE JUMP: we like tall tight ends who can run and jump]