Posted by joe briego on 1/27/2008, 1:29 pm, in reply to "Another ex-Spartan in the news..."
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: The front page of today's San Jose Mercury
: features an aticle on Tom Brady's days
: growing up in San Mateo. One of his old
: friends inteviewed for the story is Giovanni
: Toccagino Jr. who was one of Brady's WR's at
: Serra High. Toccagino was a TE at San Jose
: State in 1996. He was a pretty good one too,
: but he transfered to San Diego State the
: following year after in-coming Head Coach
: Dave Baldwin told him that the TE position
: was not featured much in his offense. Later,
: Baldwin changed his ways, and used a TE
: quite a bit, but Giovanni was long gone.
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: Giovanni xferring from UOP played his first
season at JSSU. but the time the season was over his academics were almost non-existant. rejected by Baldwin he xferred to SDSU and eventually lost his scholly, again for academics. Interesting enough though, of the 5 transfers from UOP. 3 of them did not Qualify academically their first year at SJSU. SJSU did, however, wound up with a great linebacker. I dont remember 
his name.
Joe Griego
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