Anybody else see incident/fiasco w/ band entering PMAC?

We were walking up to NEZ from north side of campus; came up the west side of PMAC by Mike's cage & gift shop (my family had received a confirmation e-mail that a commemorative brick for a dearly departed loved one had been installed; we wanted to find it)...in front of gift shop they had strung up two yellow ropes, about thigh-high, to make a corridor for the band to go in the PMAC and play for TAF/ fat cats/ OT ballers - from the road to the end of the bldg/ NW corner of tiger habitat. There were two old gray-haired gentlemen in Staff T-shirts standing in the sidewalk, who were loudly and in an agitated manner, clearing everyone off the sidewalk- what's worse is they were stupidly shoving everybody into the cramped area in front of the gift shop rather than the other side with about twenty times the space. A few people here and there were stepping over the rope and crossing to the other side- these two guys were acting like this was The Crime of The Century, screaming and hollering, physically grabbing people and shoving them back, "You can't cross! The band is coming through!" A girl had stepped over one rope and was lifting the rope on the other side to go under it; one guy grabbed the rope from behind her and jerked it backwards forcibly, knocking her to the ground; he then stood over her yelling at her "GET BACK! You can't cross!" At this point several witnesses began yelling a few choice words and suitable "WTF, dude?", etc, at these two clowns...it got loud. Three troopers from the road heard the commotion and came over and joined in patrolling up and down to hold the over-crowded mass in front of the gift shop captive...

I can understand clearing a path for the band to march through, but here's the problem that made this excessive and ridiculous- the band had not even APPEARED at the top of the hill yet, yet alone marched down, stopped, and played the Fight Song before continuing! These two idiots were acting like the sidewalk would explode if anybody stepped on it, and it was at least 25-30 minutes until the corridor was needed...There was absolutely no reason why this had to be dealt with in such a manner- "Excuse me, I need to get across here?", "OK, come on, hurry up" could have been the standard and save the violence and shouting until 5 minutes before the band finally gets there.

Whoever those two old men were, somebody needs to fire them, or at least re-assign them to a concession booth or somewhere where they are less tempted to let "the power" go to their heads and allow them to treat the fans in the manner in which they behaved...I was not the only person steamed and outraged, and it was not just the bourbon talking.