Why aren't student tickets free as they once were?

Last part of your post.
Plus you're stupid.

At some point, the amount of students, and more specifically, the amount of students who wanted tickets, grew, but the amount of student seats did not grow, or at least in proportion to the demand. So they implemented a lottery system or something shortly before I went to college. It was a little controversial, and there was some bitching (I know, I know—hard to believe Tiger fans would bitch about something), but it had to happen.

If LSU didn't charge for these tickets, you would have a number of students winning tickets in a lottery and never showing up. That would not be good. Charging a nominal $7 fee for each ticket was the solution. Only students who were willing to pay and therefore actually go to the game ebtered the lottery.

I was there a little before you. The tickets weren't free but part of the semester activity fee. Students just needed the ID to get in.

I think they were $3 a ticket when I attented back in the early/mid 90's.

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Your student fees covered the tickets. Is that not a valid solution again?

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I forget what the fee was but you pre-paid for the season. So if you didn't go you forfeited part of that money, but it was very little per game. It could still work, if you've already paid it gives extra incentive to attend.

So the salaries for Les et al basically are paid by the students are you saying?

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So the salaries for Les et al basically are paid by the students are you saying?

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Well sure, part of them, but at a very discounted rate compared to general admission.

If it was free, or if student fees covered the cost, For games such as Bama, 30,000 students would show up, for a game like Furman you would have maybe 10,000. Our fan base is feast or famine these days. If room was reserved for all 30,000 students the student section would be half empty for most games, thus resulting in more bitching on the tiger rant.

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When I went to LSU in the 70's, all Full time students were allowed to attend each game for free and the student section started near mid field. Why can't this this be done again? Is it money like everything else? Thus certainly would fill up the stadium and make it lot lot louder.

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Season tickets were dirt cheap, free parking and no TAF fees. Maybe we should go back to those days, too?

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or am I naive?

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Yes

Although the housing in the stadium sucked hard.....miss those days of simply walking from your room a few steps right into student section!