Kansas, North Carolina and Communication Studies
I’m watching the University of North Carolina vs Kansas basketball game Saturday night and I came up with a great trivia question. What do Tyler Hansbrough and Russell Robinson have in common? The answer: They are both majoring in Communication Studies.
It was half way through the first half and Kansas guard Russell Robinson steps to the free throw line to shoot a pair. CBS puts his stats up across the bottom of the screen and I happen to notice he is majoring in Communication Studies.
A few minutes later, Tyler Hansbrough steps to the line and it’s the same thing. He’s shooting two and CBS puts his info across the bottom of the screen with the same major…Communication Studies.
I do a little research and it turns out that Kansas guard Jeremy Case is also a Communication Studies major and Kansas Assistant Coach Joe Dooley is a Speech Communications major. Not only is Psycho T a C.S. major, but so is Marc Campbell, Bobby Frasor, Marcus Ginyard and Danny Green.
That’s a whole lot of communication studying going on in one locker room! So much so, they have an entire department centering around Communication Studies at UNC. There is even a newsletter!
For those of you, like me, who are wondering what Communication Studies is, here is what UNC has to say about it…
Through teaching, research, and service, the Department of Communication Studies: addresses the many ways communication functions to create, sustain, and transform personal life, social relations, political institutions, economic organizations, and cultural and aesthetic conventions in society; promotes competencies required for various modes of mediated and nonmediated communication; and develops skills for analyzing, interpreting, and critiquing communication problems and questions.
I have no idea what any of that means. But I do know if everyone from this year’s team is back communicating on the court next year…life will be good in Chapel Hill!
I also know for the first time ever in an NCAA pool…I have one of the teams in the finals on my sheet!!
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