UPDATE: According to reports Ula, who is Mormon, will be on a two year mission and won't be enrolling until 2016, but does plan to sign his NLI with the Badgers as part of this class.
Wisconsin's summer recruiting is getting off to a pretty good start and the class of 2014 has it's first verbal commitment from an out of state recruit thanks to Ula Tolutau making a fast choice in favor of the Badgers. Tolutau is a three star athlete/running back out of Salt Lake City (East) in Utah.
Tolutau. who is 6'1" and 230lbs., is a name that most fans probably aren't familiar with as he was just offered by Wisconsin on May 8th. So, why the fast choice for Wisconsin? Well, he's quoted as calling UW a "dream school."
In fact, according to Jon McNamara at BadgerBlitz.com Ula's head coach even says as much:
"Ula told me in September that his dream school was Wisconsin, and that was long before coach Andersen got the job," Salt Lake City (Utah) East head coach Brandon Matich told BadgerBlitz.com.
He chose the Badgers over offers from BYU, Utah, Utah State, and Hawaii. He also was receiving major interest from just about every Pac-12 school but once the Badgers offered it was all over for him according to multiple reports.
Credit this to the knowledge and work Andersen has done in Utah and the recruiting efforts of defensive line coach Chad Kauha'aha'a in landing this prospect for the Badgers. it says a lot of what coach Andersen thinks of Tolutau's ability that he personally offered him – something that doesn't happen very often if ever in the recruiting world.
That relationship sealed the deal early for him and the Badgers now have six members of their class for 2014. He's likely to compete at running back/fullback at UW to start out his career as a Badger according to multiple sources.
You can check him out in this highlight video for a glimpse of what he can bring to the table (side note…. not bad football being played in Utah, huh?)
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