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Unless the federal government outright sponsors it (not happening), college will never be free to all. The federal government cannot dictate what a private institution does within the confines of the law, and no one is making charging tuition illegal anytime soon. I could maybe see a law...

This is a fair point. Typically if you can get into Stanford/Harvard/Princeton, et al, they'll find a way to ensure you can enroll and pay.

I'm not sure HOW a college could pay students given Title IX. If all sports got equal resources, there's not an athletic department on earth that could survive that. The vast majority barely break even as is.

Totally agreed. And that's not even getting into grad/med/law school, which is more expensive and probably suffering worse inflation. Just like college football, it's an arm's race. Trustees of major universities have an obligation to alumni/enrolled students to maximize the value of their...

This is just outright incorrect. Enrollment levels at prestigious, established schools is not markedly increasing. Campuses are finite and good schools focus on class size.

Your logic is suffering from cart and horse fallacy. The tuition doesn't increase after someone gets a financial aid package. It's much more likely professor salaries and capital improvements.

Replace "economics" with almost any other subject and there's no point for message boards anymore.

Coaching salaries in college, as well as college tuition, have completely blown inflation away for decades now. They will ONLY decline in purchasing power if growth in salary is less than inflation, which is frankly laughable, even in inflationary periods. Might they regress in growth rate...

Across the board, perhaps. But elite coaches provide an ROI to the university that virtually if not literally nothing else can. I can guarantee without question that Saban and Dabo more than pay for themselves. Now, I'm not exactly saying I agree with it, but Clemson and 'Bama aren't much of...

Demand for elite coaches increases at an increasing rate. Supply stays effectively the same. Price goes up. This is day one of econ 101.

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