So, we have a surprising addendum to the Tom Brady Cal story. He was much closer to being a Golden Bear than we realize: He was actually committed to the Bears.
(First, a correction from the original story: Steve Mariucci was not involved in the recruitment of Brady, as he was still in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers at the time.)
Former Cal assistant Denny Schuler contacted us a little while after our original story. Tom Brady had already made his silent verbal to Schuler a few weeks before his Michigan trip, where he eventually flipped to the Bears.