Your contrarian point for the day: most of the empirical analyses I have seen strongly suggest that your college major has a much bigger impact on your salary than the prestige of your college.
Return on investment? Not so much...
(Of course, I wouldn't be a professor of political science if salary were my main consideration, so how much is this a sincere reflection of what I believe, and how much am I just prodding readers? Um...)
I'll always advocate getting rid of college sport anyway. I will also type, "sport," just 'cuz. I hate sportsball.