re: $126,935 is the average annual cost of a Student-Athlete at Alabama.

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this is why i don't put any stock into the whole "athletes are exploited and deserve to be paid" argument.

they SHOULD leave college with zero debt, a degree, connections the average student could only dream about, and having spent 4 years showing potential employers in their dream field what they are capable of with exposure that you simply can't put a price on.

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I'm not jumping into the debate here, I just want to make sure to make sure people remember that these costs include the costs of being an athlete. In other words, I assume that uniforms, travel, etc., costs that wouldn't be imposed on the student-athlete in the first place if he or she wasn't representing the universities as an athlete, count toward this figure. So those costs shouldn't be included in the argument.