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Message: [QUOTE="andy34, post: 3146692, member: 7239"] As has been noted before in this thread, the "200K" and "160K" figures thrown out there about the value of a 4 year college education are wildly inflated, for a number of reasons. The marginal cost for a college to add an athlete to a few classes is extraordinarily lower. The high cost of higher education has a lot of reasons, and I would hope anyone really concerned with the cost of college would advocate for making college free, like most of the rest of the world. Also, I'm one of the kids who "got ripped off" and is paying loans a decade after I finished at UConn. Hasn't stopped me from pushing for a better system. Lastly, the value of the "brand name" of the college is in large part due to the free labor that players have provided to the universities. Their prestige has been constructed on the backs of unpaid labor - today's players have a platform built by players in the past. The great coaches and great programs are all financed by media and sneaker deals...... which are valuable themselves because of the players. Every student is getting ripped off, we can both advocate for payers to be paid and for college to be free. [/QUOTE]