Do college athletes not receive enough extra-funding already? While it is an accomplishment to earn an athletic scholarship, they should not be worth more money than an academic scholarship. Auburn University paid over $100,000 in scholarship money to softball star Holly Currie, and it only paid $60,000 to academic scholar Scott Moore who made a 30 on his ACT and had a 4.0 GPA.

Athletic scholarship recipients not only receive free schooling, a place to stay, and are also offered on campus jobs. Usually, these jobs have minimum labor and very good pay. So why would these students need to be paid for playing their sports? Most college students who have a part-time job usually work to pay living expenses. Athletic s

cholars already have their expenses paid for.

In closing, there is just no way could we afford to pay athletes or even do it fair. College sports have survived over 100 years by losing young stars early to professional sports. By paying college sports not only do we take away from the tradition to the game but we also take away the amateurism of the sports. College basketball and football are still some of the highest rated TV in America and it doesn’t look to have any downward spirals ahead.

By paying a college athlete, we are taking the emphases off academics and placing them on athletics. We should be doing the exact opposite. 99.9 percent of college athletes never play pro sports (Bianchi, 2001, p.2). So, why should we stress college sports so heavily, when only 99.9 percent make a profession out of them? Not only that, the national graduation rate for college scholarship athletes is 50% (Stewart, 2001, p.2). I see no point in pumping more money to the athletics, if it’s already wasting 50% of the money on scholarships never finished.

Some people suggest taking money from endorsements that the colleges receive from TV networks or big-time businesses such as Nike or Reebok. CBS spent over $6 billion dollars to secure the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament (Bagnato, 2001, p.1). By the time you divide that up betwe

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