Duke basketball player Greg Paulus has a sense of what his brother Mike, a backup redshirt freshman quarterback for the North Carolina Tar Heels football team, is going through these days.
With UNC starter T.J. Yates getting injured in the second half against Virginia Tech with the Heels leading, Paulus came off the bench and threw two interceptions. The Heels let the lead slip in an eventual loss and Paulus took his share of heat as a result.
Paulus and Cameron Sexton both played the following week in a win at Miami where Sexton, a junior, emerged as Yates' replacement.
"He's doing OK," Greg Paulus said on Friday. "He's getting better. It's a process."
Greg Paulus has had his own struggles at Duke, mostly on defense, but is a senior captain this season for a team expected to do some interesting things. His advice to his younger brother dealing with detractors at the rival school?
"I tell him to keep learning to keep getting better," the Duke guard said. "There are going to be games
you play well and and games you don't play well. You just have to keep
working and keep trucking at it. And you'll be fine."
