re: "I had to ask a booster to fix our plumbing"

I agree with just about all of this, but I also understand that you and I are not 18 year old kids who are star athletes being told how great they are by people like Nick Saban and Urban Meyer. I'm much more disturbed by the attitude of some of these recruits than the attitude of the programs trying to court them. I remember when Tebow announced his commitment live on ESPN, a ton of people were dumbfounded that ESPN televised a high school kid announcing where he was going to college. These days, announcement videos are produced like movies, NSD is almost a national holiday, and with social media, these guys are celebrities before they ever step foot on campus.
For what it's worth, I do agree that I'd rather see the money spent on recruiting staff than facilities, but once that is in place, I'd like to see some upgrades to the facilities because like it or not, prettier is better