While our Big East expert Vince Mullins visits places that sound too tropical for cold-weather folks to hear….Fantasy College Blitz has brought in their Fly-Over Country correspondent, Daniel Freer, to handle the Big East this week.  Yes, Daniel knows the difference between a grain elevator and a skyscraper.

With Week Five bringing in more Big East conference action, Week Four was a week that saw the conference schools post a respectable 5-2 vs non-conference foes…even more respectable considering four of those games were on the road…including the impressive South Florida 17-7 win at Florida State…engineered by Bulls frosh QB B.J. Daniels (photo, thanks TampaBay.com)…who made the Seminoles regret letting the local Tallahassee product take his college game 200 miles south to Tampa.

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It is not unusual for college athletes to play more than one sport while in school.

However, it is unusual for a college athlete to play different sports…at different schools.  Enter former Duke point guard Greg Paulus (photo, thanks GoDuke.com)…who will suit up for Syracuse football this fall.

Although this is one of the more intriguing stories in this college football off-season, do not think this is just a publicity stunt or an ego-trip…Paulus has some very good football credentials…and could wind up starting at QB for the Orange in 2009.

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