Duke Point Guard Paulus to Play in the NFL?

Filed on April 14th, 2009 in Basketball, NFL ⋅ ⋅
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Greg Paulus was an accomplished high school football star, breaking many of the quarterback records in the state of New York. He was also one hell of a basketball player. When forced to choose between quarterbacking at Notre Dame and point-guarding at Duke, Paulus chose the latter.

Four years later, Paulus lost his job in his senior season for Coach K, and was merely a role player to close out his college career. His NBA prospects are pretty much non-existent, so what’s a guy to do with only a Duke education to get him through life?

How about going back to football?

Paulus worked out for the Green Bay Packers, and they are interested in drafting the 6′1″ former high school star. Each of Paulus’ brothers played D-I football, while he choose basketball, so not only is the talent there, but so is the pedigree.

Not only did he set a bunch of state records in high school, he was the Gatorade Player of the Year his senior season and a first-team All-American in Parade Magazine. And he hasn’t taken a snap since.

Apparently, the Packers worked out Paulus this week, having him throw passes to receiver Eron Riley during his workout, and now, PFT is also reporting that several other teams are interested in the point guard.

As if there wasn’t enough reason to hate a guy who had to make such a tough Notre Dame QB/Duke PG decision, then he plays four years at Duke, and now he may get a shot to play in the NFL after quitting the game four years ago. Can you create a more hatable situation?

Of course, after witnessing Paulus’ college defense, I am led to the awful pun that he will now possibly spend his career avoiding a whole new kind of sack. Thank you, I’ll be here all week…

UPDATE: And as if Paulus getting drafted into the NFL doesn’t make you hate this guy enough, there is also now a possibility that Paulus will be Michigan’s starting quarterback next year (HT: tonyblogs.net). Rough gig — play four years of basketball at Duke, head to Michigan for your fifth year of college (one remaining year of football eligibility), enroll in some graduate program, be big man on campus for another year, win the starting job (shouldn’t be hard), and then get drafted into the NFL. Don’t take this the wrong way, but what an asshole.

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