Corey Graves talks teaching sports broadcasting at Point Park University
Corey Graves has a new role: college professor.
Triblive has a story on Graves teaching broadcasting students at Point Park College in Pittsburg. The class, a three-hour course on Wednesdays called Live Sports Production, currently has twelve students signed up. What started out as speaking to students turned into a new teaching role following an exchange between university officials. While Graves described the idea as “absurd” at first, the chair of the university’s school of communications department, Dr. Bernie Ankey, thought otherwise.
“I was really impressed with the way he interacted and mentored 18-, 19-, 20-year-old students and just watching the energy he brought to his presentation,” Ankney said. “I thought it would be worth looking into Corey teaching a class. Somebody like that, if you put him in the classroom, students are familiar with his work.”
WWE’s parent company TKO, according to Graves, supports the idea, something he thinks wouldn’t have happened under the previous regime.
“TKO has seemingly been a lot more open to collaboration and allowing talent to step outside WWE, more so than the old WWE regime,” Graves said. “Anybody who works for WWE has had an opportunity of some sort that they’ve had to turn down because they couldn’t get permission, or it was a conflict of interest. This really isn’t a wrestling class; it was a broadcasting class. I took it to my manager, and they’ve been supportive to help me with making this happen.”
Graves is currently one of the voices heard on Monday Night Raw, but also occasionally is heard on SmackDown and on other WWE events.
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