Pauluspalooza, coming this fall to a starting lineup near you (if you live near Syracuse)

Before last week, this is one of the last times Greg Paulus wore a helmet and pads, as a senior for Christian Brothers Academy a couple days after Thanksgiving 2004: Yeah, I know, nobody on the white team covered anybody, but still: His team dominated and Paulus was Gatorade's high school player of the year for the entire country, at which point he told interested football programs to take a hike. But either he hasn't lost that touch after four years of focusing on basketball at Duke, or Syracuse is really desperate to find the slightest hint of a spark in its wasteland of an offense, because, after a full week of practice, Paulus is the Orange's new starting quarterback. He has two-and-a-half weeks with the first team to prep for the opener with Minnesota. So yeah ... Ryan Nassib ... sorry, dude. But you saw the writing on the wall, right? When faced with a choice between a lightly recruited, no-name redshirt freshman whose emergence in the spring caught even the most ...