Scholarships for STUDENT Athletes

These days it seems like every good college athletes is on scholarship at his or her school. You can just scan the field or court and realize that most of the players are basically getting paid to be there. These kids get their whole college paid for so that they can play a sport for the school. The ironic thing is though, is that athletes are notorious for having trouble when it comes to maintaining good grades in school. A lot of athletes don't even graduate. So in reality, they are getting their school paid for, but then don't end up learning or getting the beneficiaries of school, knowledge. The school is paying for the kid to be a "student-athlete" at their school, but the kid doesn't really partake in the "student" part of the deal. So what is the college paying for in the end? This is one reason why it is not right to give out athletic scholarships, because the school is paying for the kid's privilege to learn, but he doesn't end up learning anything in the end. If an athletic scholarship is awarded, it should be awarded to a kid who will up hold the "student" part of "student-athlete." Otherwise the University if wasting money if the kid isn't going to learn or graduate in the first place.
When an athlete is on scholarship, it is not news to him, he is well aware that he is extremely gifted in his sport. The fact that he is on scholarship just boosts his ego even more. Some of the time in can even present the message that his sport comes first in college. Since he is on scholarship, they are paying him to play a sport right? So the sport should come first, right? Well the fact is that they are actually paying for his schooling so that he can have the privilege of playing the sport. Student comes first in student athlete, and sometimes scholarship players forget that.