<p>If people want to do pro sports they can on their own time. College should be for learning and nobody should get scholarships and extra treatment cause they are good at playing games. Its discrimation.</p>
<p>You mad bro? Looks like someone didn’t make the cut for the team.</p>
<p>Just don’t go to a school with sports team if you have such an issue with it. I’m sure Jameis Winston will contribute more to his school than you ever could.</p>
<p>"Its discrimation.
What’s discrimation? Sports teach people how to be a part of a team, how to work well with others, how to be a leader, how to manage your time, thinking skills, etc. Plus, they allow people to use their bodies, get exercise, and maintain a healthy body. Colleges are able to make money with sports and that helps the college keep running.</p>
<p>Its not about getting on the team! Well not all about that. But yeah colleges get money for it and that is where its a problem. It isn’t about being healthy. They should make it all intermural and everyone should get to be on a team but they shouldn’t play other schools or get any money from it. Athletes shouldn’t be popular just cause they are good at playing stupid games.</p>
<p>So who should be popular?</p>
<p>Also the vast majority of schools lose money on their athletic programs so that point isn’t valid.</p>
<p>Like it or not, college sports end up being a great source of revenue for colleges. Without those sports, the colleges are going to lose a LOT of their funding, which is going to end up having an impact on many other parts of the school.</p>
<p>I’m not exactly a sports person myself. I don’t play any, and I never really have. All of my free time is devoted to studying physics and math. It really burns me that athletes are constantly being offered full ride scholarships, yet I, as a future scientist, am forced to search for scholarships and grants, in hopes of not graduating with “too much” debt. Athletes that can run a ball down a field, frequently at the expense of their academics, are going there for free though. That bugs me.</p>
<p>But, sports are a good thing on the whole. I think the “teaching people how to work together” aspect is kind of negligible, because those skills can be learned elsewhere. I’ve gained a lot of teamwork skills from working in groups in my physics labs and such. I’ve gained a lot of group communications skills through organizing study groups for various classes. I don’t think an athlete is going to be a better “team player” in most respects than I am. They do have a lot of positive aspects as far as school spirit and bringing people together for a common cause goes.</p>
<p>It’s great that we have so many different kinds of colleges.</p>
<p>Contrary to popular belief, college’s main purpose is not to learn. The purpose is to aid one in obtaining a satisfactory, stable career.</p>
<p>^ For some students at some schools; it’s not universal!</p>
<p>What the… Dude, College sports especially big ten are widely popular across the nation. Any athletes getting “special treatments” have less time to spend on studying/homework then the average or regular college students because they spend dedicated time to their sports. Basically like an honor student getting a full ride because he have promise to be more than what the average students does.</p>
<p>If you’re arguing about money… lol without the funding from my school sports we would have less things for everyone else.</p>
<p>No one should get scholarships for any reason. Smart kids included. It is discrimination!</p>
<p>But seriously, these athletes have a talent that not only allows them to get an education but also brings exposure to a University that is very much benefiting from them. For example, my school, Alabama, has benefited tremendously from having a successful athletic program. A large portion of the money that the athletic program makes is brought back into the general fund for the University and used to help fund renovations to libraries and scholarships for non-athletes. Also, there are internship and research programs that likely would not have been available had the facilities not been upgraded with the money the athletic department helped bring in. This goes on at other schools such as LSU and Tennessee as well. All of this doesn’t even begin to touch on what they do for school morale and fostering a sense of community among the student body. </p>
<p>To say these players don’t deserve to be treated at least a little differently is a bit silly to me because they contribute much more to the school than most students will. Should they be treated in a manner that puts them on a pedestal and allow them to have free reign over campus (See: Barry Switzer’s Oklahoma Sooners of the 1980’s)? Absolutely not, but they are definitely deserving of their scholarships. </p>
<p>Obviously, since I go to a large state school with a strong athletic program, my view will be different than someone who goes to a private school that has an athletic program that actually loses money and could possibly be considered a detriment.</p>
<p>You guys are being trolled.</p>
<p>Stop throwing him cookies! Step away from the ■■■■■.</p>
<p>He’s trolling all over. Probably bored. And the profile shows age 23, so something’s not lining up.</p>
<p>To address the “no one should be popular for playing sports”…</p>
<p>I want to assure the OP that my continued participation in Cross Country/Track and Field has done nothing to boost my popularity.</p>
<p>Since, ya know, it’s cross country.</p>
<p>Try being on varsity fencing. Let alone not boosting my popularity, it probably hurt it.</p>
<p>I’d respect fencing more than golf, if my school had fencing, if that helps you feel any better.</p>
<p>I too believe sports and academics should be uncoupled, and I have yet to see real evidence that sports contributes funding to academics. If this were the case, why don’t colleges worldwide raise money with sports?</p>
<p>Lol, every post this ~kid~ has is a massive trolly Polly y’all</p>