Just Realized...

[failedtakeover]

I was looking at college basketball rosters for some of the top schools and isnt it weird that all the players or about 75% of them or all the good ones aremajoring in communications. From what I know isnt that the easiest major?

 

[doublejs07]

"all" doesn't = 75%

also, can you list a few that are majoring in communications?

 

[failedtakeover]

any info on this anyone lol

 

[shuges]

What do you, work for Outside The Lines?

 

[indiespice]

A list of these players would be helpful.

 

[hybridsoldier23]

A lot of athletes major in communications and sociology...

 

[philballa09]

alot of athletes major in SM...

 

[wildkycat]

Originally Posted by DoubleJs07

also, can you list a few that are majoring in communications?

Patrick Patterson, AJ Stewart, and Josh Harrelson.

about 6 UK guys are majoring in Community Comm. & Leadership Development.

Meeks: Business Marketing

Darius Miller: Pyschology

Porter: Finance with a PHD in Basketball Suckage.

 

[frankie valentino]

He's right, I did a quick sample of a team with a lot of boneheads: Syracuse. Devendorf, Flynn, Mookie Jones, Paul Harris, Kevin Drew, and Kris Joseph allhave a Communications major. "Human Ecology" was also another preferred major of syracuse players...

 

[failedtakeover]

thats what I'm saying if your actually interested okay then but some of these guys just want the easy way out.

 

[failedtakeover]

Originally Posted by DoubleJs07

"all" doesn't = 75%

also, can you list a few that are majoring in communications?

pretty much the whole north carolina team

 

[eight2one]

well what do you expect?

 

[Retroballer]

well you take that for a major and after you are done with basketball you can work in TV.

 

[dyyhard]

thought another big one is kinesiology for student-athletes.

 

[downtown43]

OP is right... it seems like all of these dudes are either Communications, Criminal Justice, Sports Medicine or Sociology. i always noticed this.

here's an article i just looked up on this:

http://www.usatoday.com/s...-18-majors-graphic_N.htm

not really surprising... you wouldn't expect cats on the hoops team to be majoring in Chemical Engineering, unless it's Stanford or something

 

[failedtakeover]

hahaha

 

[tmay407]

Originally Posted by Frankie Valentino

He's right, I did a quick sample of a team with a lot of boneheads: Syracuse. Devendorf, Flynn, Mookie Jones, Paul Harris, Kevin Drew, and Kris Joseph all have a Communications major. "Human Ecology" was also another preferred major of syracuse players...

Doesn't Syracuse have one of the top Communications schools in the nation, though? Players getting a degree in Communications in that case ispretty understandable.

I'm pretty sure something like ~80% of the athletes at Texas A&M major Ag Leadership. Talk about a joke of a major

Look for Antoine Wright's interview from a few years ago, where he talksabout how easy those classes were.

 

[vctry20]

Here at Oregon most of the football/basketball players major in Political Science.

I love it when I walk into a new PS class in the beginning of the term and see four or five football players sitting in there. That means either (a) The classis easy or (b) The teacher grades on a huge curve. Either way, I know I'm in the clear.

 

[f3djam]

my dude in d1 majors in that. he said "i aint tryna read no books" lmao
but its not bad

 

[acidicality]

it's true tho.
the only athlete i can recall majoring in engineering is Manny Lawson, he did some form of engineering but i can't quite remember which one...that'spretty crazy.

 

[drunken cow]

They have too since its the easier of majors. You really think someone doing both sports and engineering/premed/law will pass?

 

[japanair21]

Michael Ruffin got a degree in ChemEngn,
Alan Henderson got a BA in Bio
Emeka graduated with a 3.8 GPA (although, in finance).
Dikembe can speak 9 languages, not smart per se, but still, nine languages is impressive.

 

[doublejs07]

Originally Posted by JapanAir21

Michael Ruffin got a degree in ChemEngn,
Alan Henderson got a BA in Bio
Emeka graduated with a 3.8 GPA (although, in finance).
Dikembe can speak 9 languages, not smart per se, but still, nine languages is impressive.

you're joking, right? You don't think that Mutombo was smart? First off, you would be playing under John Thompson if youcouldn't hack it in the classroom. Integrity starts with him. Secondly...

Mutombo was a double major with degrees in Linguistics and Diplomacy from Georgetown University


and before that, he was originally pre-med....

 

[ill 949]

wow.. this post just made me feel useless.. im majoring in communications and i dont even play any sports

 

[miamin2]

I think a lot of college athletes major in communications so they can do some sort of sports broadcasting or analyzing on air on some local sports networkafter they're done playing if they don't make it to the pros