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Found August 18, 2009 on The Sporting Blog:
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Behold: Doug Marrone, Syracuse football coach. You may know him better by the title most longtime Saints fans gave him when he coached in New Orleans, "Who?", but you know who we mean: the man who named Greg Paulus as starting quarterback at Syracuse for the opening of the 2009 football season, and thus gave Syracuse an instant front page slot on Google News when you search for "College football." Before a game is played, we actually have to mention "Syracuse football" in a sentence not containing the words "...will make your eyes bleed from the horror of Syracuse football." In that sense, if you consider PR victories important in football, Doug Marrone already has his first win. As you'll hear a hundred times today, Paulus is a real live football player, or at least was prior to his career playing college basketball at Duke, where he earned a reputation for theatrical flopping and basking in the unyielding sunshine of Dick Vitale's love. He opted for basketball over football, but ...
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