scholarships to play at different schools diversity is being bought to the school.
Even if it is only on the football team where the diversity is in the whole school. Student athletes who are mostly on scholarship also make the school look good. If the team is good the school will be more desirable to incoming freshman and transfers who may play on that team. Predominatly white schools, which is most schools get money for minorities attending their school. So although these schools offer big scholarships to student athletes. They get the money back and some extra. Because as stated earlier most of these athletes on scholarships are minority. That raises an issue of these students being exploited. Also some of these student athletes dont finish college. Some of them decide to go pro and leave college. Which is risking a
lot because a broken leg somewhere down the line could be the end of that persons career. Most people dont go back to college after years of dropping out. And these athletes dont have anything to fall back on because they left college to play pro sports. Are they drop out because they realize that they didn't want to be in college in the first place they just wanted to play sports. These students also get special treatment for example if their grades are to low to maintain the scholarship but their really good at their sport they still get to play. But maybe these students should get special treatment they are after all athletes and students. They have to do double the work of a normal student. Athletic scholarships provide an opportunity for many who would not normally have one. Yet are these students being exploited?