The Greg Paulus news of late has become a very popular thing to cover. I can only imaging this is because...
- there's not a lot of news right now
- Paulus was a guy that was the face of Duke basketball for 2 years
- there's not a lot of news right now
That said, since there's not a lot of news right now, let's discuss Paulus some more. One interesting angle of the Paulus story has Michigan offering Paulus a scholarship to play football there. Yesterday, expected starting quarterback, Tate Forcier, weighed in on Paulus possibly coming to Michigan...
His quotes saying they offered him, I woke up and it was on TV. My coaches were calling me, they called me like three times this morning before I even saw it, but I don't know if they saw it on TV before I did and just wanted to tell me the truth. It's hard. I can't give you a word on it. I'm not worried about it, a kid like that was good in high school, but it's nearly impossible to come back to this level and play. It might be possible, but not in the QB position. You have to know too much. You have to know the speed of the game.
Further Forcier has been told Paulus ultimately may not even play football...
If it happens, it happens. I still highly doubt he's coming. It would be impossible.
Again, the only reason he would be doing this is because I heard he tried out with the (Green Bay) Packers. And from what I heard, I'm not worried about it. It ain't going to happen. By the time he would legally get here would be in the summer, and by the time he'd get here, he'd have to learn the whole playbook and get used to the speed of the game. I doubt you could even do that at the high school level, go in your senior year and try to play. You have to know too much. You have to get used to too much. I'm honestly not that worried about it. It ain't going to happen. I talked to (Michigan) Coach (Rich) Rod(riguez) and he said (Paulus) doesn't know if he wants to play football or be a basketball coach at Duke or coach football. He doesn't know yet. I might not be getting the whole story from my coaches, but there's no final word.
Be a basketball coach at Duke? Is there an opening I didn't hear about? Certainly Paulus has a number of options, so why not explore them. From the sounds of it, Paulus has a number of hoops to jump through to even be eligible to play football next season. Said hoops (double-meaning here) may prevent Paulus from making this well publicized football move.
