So much for the lazy, ho-hum National Signing Day for the Tennessee Volunteers, who just landed high 4-star linebacker Henry To’oto’o over Alabama and Washington.
The Vols had been in play early until momentum seemed to shift last week and narrowed the race to Washington and Alabama. But in the last 24 hours or so, word began to spread that To’oto’o was indeed seriously considering Tennessee, and he made it official on ESPNU just after 3:00 ET this afternoon.
We’ll have more on To’oto’o’s commitment later and what it means to Tennessee’s class, but for
How do you pronounce his name.
I have not seen a pronunciation guide, but here’s my guess: Assuming Polynesian follows the same kind of rules that Japanese does, it’s largely about rhythm in that each syllable gets the same length of one beat. So, because there are two consecutive Os, the O sound gets two beats.
It’s basically like pronouncing two Os consecutively. So, Toe-oh Toe-oh.
As I said, I haven’t seen this anywhere, but that’s the rule I’ve been using.