It went so well that WVU will call the members back again next month and in November to keep the conversation flowing. The critical, yet constructive give-and-take seemed to inform the members as much as it did the Mountaineers, which was sort of the point, and we’re going to see the fruits of their labor in the fall.

Matt Wells, WVU’s director of sports marketing, confirmed some things are safe, some are gone, some are under review and others are being considered to be incorporated into the pregame experience.

Still, there might be room for an additional pregame element, one Wells and his people observed at other Big 12 venues. TCU and Baylor invited fans onto the field for the team’s entrance. Wells said WVU is “not ready to say it’ll definitely happen,” but that the committee meetings gave the school reason to consider bringing children, students, community groups or contest winners onto the field for when the Mountaineers run out of their weight room.

“But here’s another matter of perspective: I was looking at it at TCU and when the ball was going up in the air for the opening kickoff, there was a clump of students in the corner of the end zone,” Wells said. “The chances are nothing weird will ever happen and the fans would never get involved, but imagine if something weird did happen and there’s a fumble and they run it up the sideline right into the students. That’s something we have to consider as we take a look at that one idea and discuss it.”