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

You and I are arguing semantics right now (A rose by any other name). Bama reported $104M in direct revenue for football. They had 85 scholarhip athletes, you do the math. Calling their scrapes a stipend or a salary really doesn't change what they are. They are employees of University with partial long term benefits and they are being taken advantage of. The NCAA has brainwashed people like you into believing that they are amateurs. Again, are they getting anything more than what an average student on full scholarship gets ?