Nine years ago, Representative Howard P. McKeon, a California Republican, proposed to cap colleges' tuition increases at twice the rate of inflation, with sanctions including the loss of federal aid, but colleges protested, and the bill died in committee.
He suggests money can be saved by cutting food stamps, capping college Pell grants, imposing more welfare work requirements, eliminating federal arts funds, even selling off public lands.
While there is a strict salary cap in college sports, in the form of scholarships, there is no spending cap.
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For the next month, though, Murray is focused on capping his college career with a national championship.
"Men that are into hats are really particular," said Pete Wilson, president of Top of the World, a Norman, Okla., company that specializes in caps for college teams.
If there were an event like the Super Bowl that capped the college admissions season, then it would probably be Thursday night — beginning at 5 p.m. on the East Coast.
Even so, it is not intended to cap off your college search.
"I think it's an embarrassment that it's somebody in a ball cap with no college education that's going in to ask these questions," he said.
Unlike in baseball, N.F.L. teams share the big TV money equally, and everything from the salary cap to the college draft and scheduling is meant to help the laggards catch up.
