These so called top tier universities provide networking opportunities to escalate otherwise marginal people with career advancement that would normally be beyond the scope of their abilities.

Alabama football or Duke basketball DOES NOT DO THIS! That is what I love about pro sports... it's real competition. If Ika, Jabari, or any other athlete goes there because that's where he wants to go... great. But the coaches aren't teaching any proprietary knowledge or sprinkling anything onto their cereal to magically make them better NFL prospects.

It's the ultimate case of confusing correlation with causality. Power schools produce more NFL players because they recruit more NFL players, and if the average 40 something LDS football fan can't manage to grasp this I have little hope for a 17 year old recruit with Nick Saban whispering sweet nothings into his ear.