My son starts Texas A&M in the fall. I will say this, I was a little disappointed in the student dorms. I have no idea what the football dorms look like but the student dorms (including the honors ones which my son will be in one, McFadden) seemed old. All of the ones we saw on our tour were of an older style. I know obviously the non-athlete is not going to school for perks, like a cool brand new dorm room and amenities the building has , but just thought with the money that A&M has seems like they would have been updated. I will say this though, the new Engineering building at A&M is unreal.
I know Bama still uses a lot of their older dorms, cough cough Tutwiler (which I think this is the last year for it) which I stayed in as a kid over 30yrs ago for soccer camp.
But back to topic of your post, yes have a feeling the rich get richer. It is sad at what the average student has to pay but yet the athlete gets access to a free education that most could care less about and don't even show up to class.