Greg Paulus makes an (unconventional) comeback
April 14, 2009
Today I noticed a weird bit of news, courtesy of Sports Illustrated: Greg Paulus, having stumbled through his senior season at Duke, losing a starting job and his shooting stroke in the process, has apparently switched sports. Switched, specifically, to a sport he once was (and perhaps still is) very good at, or so the Green Bay Packers were led to believe…
Once the high school Gatorade Football Player of the Year, Paulus has scored an unusual opportunity in working out with the Packers, just weeks after Duke’s season — and Paulus’ college basketball career — was cut short in the third round of the NCAA basketball tournament. There is very little of me that believes Paulus will succeed in his new endeavor (if he does, even my Duke-hating self would be forced to tip my cap), but the part of me who does is imagining DeMarcus Ware flattening him into Texas AstroTurf.
Other than that, not much more to say. I’ve never liked Paulus, as those who read this blog may already know. At this stage in the game, however, his days of harassing Wake Forest point guards are over, and so my bitterness fades. At this point I’m simply curious, and left wondering if a college basketball player has done this before…?
