Dominic Raiola Addresses Son, Dylan Joining Nebraska
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00:03 Let me also bring up because not only of course you played for the Lions for 14
00:07 years, but your son, Dylan, the top quarterback prospect in the country last
00:13 year, originally committed to Georgia, now transfers to Nebraska to play for
00:18 Matt Rule and where you played, that's got to make you feel, look, I'm sure you
00:23 were going to be happy no matter where he was going to play college football.
00:27 But for him to be now going to Lincoln to play for the Huskers, that's got to
00:32 make you feel like a million bucks.
00:34 I mean, it's so cliche, you want your kids to have their own journey, to walk
00:40 their own journey, you don't want them to follow in your footsteps.
00:43 But when they make the choice to do it, it was something tugging at his heart.
00:48 He felt like he's bigger than he can make a change.
00:54 Nebraska is a place that they're going to welcome him in, they're going to give
00:58 him every chance in the world.
01:00 And dude, if you look at Matt Rule's track record at Temple, at Baylor, the guy
01:04 knows how to turn a program around and he's already one year into it.
01:07 So I'm glad he's going to a great program and I can really get behind it.
01:15 One thing I will say is back when Nebraska was Nebraska in the late '90s,
01:21 Nebraska is still that magnitude of program.
01:24 So I would say people need to start putting some respect on that program
01:28 because there ain't no Mickey Fluke small program.
01:31 If anybody's ever been there and knows what the magnitude of the program was
01:38 back then, you could easily say that Nebraska was the Alabama of the late '90s.
01:44 You know what I'm saying?
01:46 Those guys won three championships in four years.
01:48 So put some respect on my program and look, they'll be back soon enough.
01:57 Who was the biggest recruiter for this?
02:00 Was it you?
02:01 Was it Matt Rule?
02:03 Or was it your brother who was the O-line coach?
02:05 Who had the most push for Dylan to get him out there?
02:10 Dude, my wife and I were huge proponents of Nebraska and we knew that it's such
02:15 a good place and that a place like that deserves a talent like Dylan.
02:21 But I would say Nebraska was always on TV because I watched Nebraska.
02:27 I'm like, "You ain't getting a big TV."
02:29 I went to school there and I pay the bills in this house.
02:31 We're watching Nebraska every week.
02:33 We watch Nebraska volleyball.
02:34 We always watch Nebraska.
02:36 So I think I would say that it was really just him coming to his own decision
02:42 towards the very end in the 11th hour.
02:45 So I would say he knew all along and we did give Nebraska that respect all along
02:52 through the coaching change.
02:54 I think he just wanted to see Coach Rule coach for a year.
02:56 And no disrespect to anybody else, but that's who's going to be coaching,
03:01 who's going to be leading this program.
03:03 And Trev Albers at the helm, leading the whole athletic program.
03:06 And so, I mean, it's a home run.
03:09 We couldn't be more excited.
03:12 My family, we have a place to stay there, obviously, with my brother.
03:16 And, you know, hopefully the standard gets elevated and the building just gets
03:23 better and growing and shoot, 12-team playoff, anything can happen.
03:28 We saw that with Washington.
03:29 We saw that with a lot of teams.
03:31 Yep.
03:32 We started to see the seeds of it already this year with Matt.
03:36 And now I'm sure that Dylan's going to help him take him even further back to
03:39 that level where they belong and where they were.
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