The academic facilities? The players lounges? The coaching and training? So, let me get this straight. You're saying that the players do not benefit at all from the enterprise around them that is a college football program? They would be just as prepared to go to the pros without that? How would anyone have even heard of them? If they did not appear on TV, get all the notice, and such, how in the world would anyone even know that they play football much less are good at it. I don't think you were actually saying this but the notion that they do not benefit from the multi-billion dollar investments the university has made in its physical and organizational infrastructure does not benefit the athletes. It absolutely does. It makes them more valuable. Those are the things that actually maximize their value as players. Without it, they have no value as football players at all, as evidenced by the fact that none of them - ZERO - even Alabama and Clemson players - could get paid to play football without first going to college.