One way to solve this issue again is to change our culture in the U.S. if we valued education and learning more culturally, then colleges best selling point would be to demonstrate they are the best learning center, or the best bang for your buck learning center. It's a hybrid education is important, percent of kids who are getting X paying jobs after colleges is important to the parents. But people are picking colleges for a lot of other reason (their sports team, various other events/activities the college has) If having a notable sports team didn't generate the added enrollment, and ticket sale/exposure from home games, and doing well. Things would be different.

It's always been my belief that it's on reality 80% student and 20% teacher. If you have a teacher, even if they're not the best, that puts you on the right track, looking at the right things, thinking about things appropriately the rest is up to you. You can have a great teacher that makes things a world better, ultimately even with a teacher that just puts you on the right track, if you put in the work you will learn the material.