Athletic Scholarships Pros And Cons

a. Although sports scholarships make athletes prioritize their sport over academic work, the only thing to make a student divide his or her time between a sport and schoolwork is the athletic scholarship. Many students only play college sports because of the athletic scholarships, neither track nor lacrosse and many other sports have professional options, so after college their athletic career end. Therefore, athletic scholarships did not exist as a barrier rather a path for “genuine educational opportunity.”

b. I agree with Gerdy argument that athletes’ main purpose in college is to play their sport. If colleges really believed that athletes can be students at the same time, student athletes would not be forced to travel during the academic