Things I know, and things I think I know:
Dominic Raiola told me something a couple of years ago that elicited chills.
He said he vividly remembers watching the 1997 College Football Awards Show on television as Nebraska's Aaron Taylor received the Outland Trophy following the program's third national championship in a four-year span.
Raiola recalled ESPN's Chris Fowler telling Taylor that there's probably somebody back in Lincoln waiting to rise to his level. That was when the Nebraska offensive line was pumping out big-time players. NFL players. It was the Pipeline era.
Sitting in his dorm room in Harper Hall, Raiola heard Fowler's comment and thought, "That'll be me someday.