Why Should Student Athletes Be Paid?

“According to Mark Kantrowitz and FinAid.org, approximately 1% to 2% of undergraduate students in Bachelor’s degree programs receive athletic scholarships, equaling a total of about $1 billion a year. While that monetary amount is growing at a rate of 4.5% year over year…” Yes giving talented athletes scholarships is great. The state is giving the athlete an opportunity to get a free education just due solely on the fact that they play their sport very well. But why should athletes on scholarships be paid any typeof salary if everything school related is basically taken care of. On the other hand why do only student athlete get this chance to be paid. How abut people who have academic scholarships, they’re not any less important to the school because they don’t play any sports. Lastly giving kids extra dependable money can lead to athletes becoming more prone to messing up their scholarship. When a young adult expendable money usually it is spent on things that is not always need or always smart for them to invest in int he first time. On top of that this could lead to athletes being able to live a more party life at the expense of the university of choice. With athletes
The question is, would people with academic scholarships be able to be payed a salary equivalent to the an athletes scholarships salary. Some may feel that academic scholarship holders don’t have a reason to be get salary since they don’t do much physical work all the time. Most of the time their rewarded for their philosophical or creative ways of thinking. I feel though that this unfair because they still work very hard. Just because they don’t run,swim,row or etc doesn’t make them any less important or any less in need of descendable funding. If people on athletic scholarships get a salary than it is only fair that the people on academic scholarships get the same amount