One would think that the athletic department would anticipate the negative backlash that its gate attendants would encounter as a result of this implementation. These are people that are paid little or nothing to stand at a gate taking tickets in the sweltering heat from thousands of annoyed, inebriated, sweaty and sometimes rude people. Tempers can flare, but my goodness - if you don't like doing this then move on to something else. If the Rayne Frog Festival Queen can act courteous riding in the parade on the trunk of a Cadillac, so can a Marshall. The bottom line is that the fans are both the ultimate judge and jury for the success or failure of the athletic department.
Nothing speaks louder than the sound of a wallet snapping shut.
The principal of economics is what the market will bear and the athletic department's consumer base has put up with a lot. When a program loses 8 out of 11 years and hasn't seen a major bowl game since 1986 and still sells well over 45,000 season tickets it tends to get a little jaded. As mad as the majority was walking in on Saturday, LSU knows that it will be right back for the Houston game. As the saying goes - if you put up with it you must like it and as long as wallets continue to flap open on Nicholson Drive the university will dig deeper and deeper. After all, it may need to find a new aquifer for all of the Tiger Water it'll sell.