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Good Luck To Toma (And Te'o)

Toma made it official and the story is on Notre Dame's Scout.com site:

Toma said it was very tough for him to not sign with UCLA, a school he’s been committed to since October.

“You never want to break your word, and I didn’t want to upset coach (Norm) Chow or anybody. I just hope they can respect me, because I know I’ll be happy at Notre Dame. I’m not saying I wouldn’t of been happy at UCLA, but Notre Dame seemed like the perfect place for me to go and do well.”

On signing day, Toma and Te’o actually talked about how they reached the point where they will be going their separate ways. A little over 24 hours later, they were finally able to share in the joy that they will be staying together.

Well everyone here should take the classy route and wish the kid luck (instead of comparing him to a Trojan). It's clear he wanted to go to school with his best friend and I at least can't fault him for that. What wedon't want to see here on BN is classless sour grapes types of posts we see on message boards.

Toma might not have size of a blue chip athlete but Chow offered him a scholie because he thought the kid was special. First, I trust Chow's judgment. Second, Toma validated Chow by burning up the Hawaii prep scene all year. So he deserved the UCLA scholie. So please, no one (specially people who don't come around here often) should come here to knock this kid down. Take that nonsense somewhere else.

We wish Te'o and Toma (and Billy Sanders) best of luck through rest of this careers. Here is to UCLA and ND takinig on each other in a BCS game in next four years.

GO BRUINS.

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of BruinsNation's (BN) editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of BN's editors.

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