“It's time for our college athletes to be real students on campus, not athletes on athletic salaries with sports – not education – as their highest priority and obligation… By eliminating athletic scholarship, … we could deprofessionalize college athletes, reestablish athletic departments as part of the educational institution, and be able to use the term student-athlete without sniggering.” (Ralph Nader in League of Fans Proposes Eliminating Athletic Scholarships to Help Restore Integrity on College Campus, 2011) In recent years the usefulness of athletic scholarships and their outcomes for both schools and athletes have been contested. Opposing parties have debated whether banning them will solve the problems within them. I believe that sports scholarships should be banned because they do not guarantee education, good academic performance or a good lifestyle for athletes. The idea of ​​athletic scholarships arose more than 20 years ago as colleges sought to maintain the amateur status of their athletes (Johnson & Acquaviva, n.d.). Ralph Nader, politician, author, lawyer and consumer advocate, recently attracted attention and skepticism about their effectiveness by proposing the elimination of athletic scholarships in 2011 (League of Fans Proposes Eliminating Athletic Scholarships to Help Restore Integrity on College Campuses, 2011). . After the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) professional basketball championship, Nader called on schools of higher learning to, as he put it, “…take a bold step toward restoring academic integrity in intercollegiate sports…. ” (League of Fans Proposes Eliminating Athletic Scholarships to Help Restore Integrity on College Campuses, 2011). The elimination of athletic scholarships, in my opinion, will put more pressure on athletes to care as much, if not more, about the intellectual aspects of their student life as they do with athletics. The possibility of students losing their scholarship for any reason at any time during their four years of education gives them no sense of security. Furthermore, the primary goal of athletes throughout their college career is to maintain good performance in their sport, leaving them little to no room to consider a solid academic foundation. Furthermore, with the little money they receive, it is difficult to live up to minimum standards.