MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — On Skyler Howard’s second visit to Darrell K Royal Stadium two years ago, he was a bystander for West Virginia’s 33-16 loss.
His first trip, many years earlier, wasn’t exactly sanctioned.
“I snuck on the field once when we were driving through Austin,” he said. “I was young. Me and my best friend Dylan hopped the fence and got on the field somehow.”
The trespass remains a vivid memory: Imagining those 100,000 empty seats fully occupied on a gameday afternoon. What a rush for the wide-eyed kid whose bedroom in Fort Worth was “covered in burnt-orange with white trim and a white longhorn on the wall.