Greg Paulus Green Bay Packers?

Maybe since it is a different sport? I dunno, just guessing.

 

from ncaa.org:

Graduate Student Eligibility

A student-athlete who is enrolled in a graduate or professional school of the college or university which he or she previously attended as an undergraduate student may participate in intercollegiate athletics, provided he or she has eligibility remaining and is within five calendar years of initial full-time collegiate enrollment for Division I and within the first 10 full-time semesters of collegiate enrollment for Divisions II and III.

Also, a student-athlete who has eligibility remaining and is within the specified 10-semester period may participate while enrolled in a graduate or professional school at a Division II college or university other than the institution at which he or she completed an undergraduate degree.

Finally, a student-athlete who has eligibility remaining and is within the specified five-year period may participate while enrolled in a graduate or professional school at a Division I college or university other than the institution at which he or she completed an undergraduate degree, provided he or she meets the criteria of the one-time transfer exception to the general transfer residence requirement. That exception is as follows:

* The student-athlete must be seeking to participate in a sport other than baseball, football, basketball and men's ice hockey, except that a student-athlete who seeks to participate in NCAA Football Championship Subdivision may use this exception only if transferring from a Football Bowl Subdivision program.
* The student-athlete may not have transferred previously from another four-year institution unless he or she transferred previously and received an exception to the transfer residence requirement because his or her institution either discontinued the sport or did not sponsor the sport in which the student-athlete is a participant.
* The student must have been in good academic standing and eligible to compete had he or she decided to remain at the previous institution.
* The student-athlete's previous institution must certify in writing that it has no objection to the student-athlete being granted an exception to the transfer residence requirement.

NOTE: This exception does not apply to a student-athlete who attends a Division III institution for graduate school, unless the student-athlete is attending the same institution at which he or she was an undergraduate.

NOTE: If the student-athlete transfers to the certifying institution from a Division III member institution and meets the above-mentioned conditions, he or she may be eligible to compete but may not receive athletically related financial aid during that year.

Please contact the certifying institution or conference for additional information. You also may contact the NCAA academic and membership affairs staff at 317/917-6222 if you have further questions.

 

and this...


Redshirt Definition

The term "redshirt" is used to describe a student-athlete who does not participate in competition in a sport for an entire academic year. If you do not compete in a sport the entire academic year, you have not used a season of competition. For example, if you are a qualifier, and you attend a four-year college your freshman year, and you practice but do not compete against outside competition, you would still have the next four years to play four seasons of competition.

Each student is allowed no more than four seasons of competition per sport. If you were not a qualifier, you may have fewer seasons of competition available to you. You should know that NCAA rules indicate that any competition, regardless of time, during a season counts as one of your seasons of competition in that sport. It does not matter how long you were involved in a particular competition (for example, one play in a football game, one point in a volleyball match); you will be charged with one season of competition.

 

Interesting stuff, thanks for posting that Larry


I guess the distinction is him going to graduate school. If he had left Duke as a basketball player after his junior year to play at Michigan as a senior in football, it seems like he'd have to sit out a year. But since he'd be in graduate school he wouldn't have to sit out.

I would imagine success from guys like Chris Weinke would lead coaches to inquire whether or not he still could play football.

 

weinke never played college baseball. he signed with FSU out of HS in minnesota as a QB, but never came to campus. the blue jays drafted him and he played for them for six years THEN came to FSU. i would have loved to have had him on the fsu baseball team, though.

 

Yeah I know he played minor league ball, I only meant that it had been 4+ years since he had thrown a football in a live game.

 

Duke's coach doesn't think Paulus can 'compete for our QB position' and offered him a tryout at WR. I guess Duke is set at QB in a way Michigan and Green Bay can only dream about.

 

http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_...s-paulus-may-play-qb-for-michigan?eref=fromSI

 

If Paulus played at Duke, he would lose the starting job after two games and then wave a towel the rest of the year.....NFL here he comes!

 

He ought to jump all over the chance to play at Michigan. If he has a solid year he will get draft to the NFL. He has no future in the NBA.