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He is our friend from the Bloomington Herald Times.

He is the beat writer for Indiana Athletics.

He is Mike Nijalik, who joins us on the Java House Peel and Port Guestline.

And I got a feeling Mike Nizelik is going to love if I send him some,

either the Wrangler energy might be more what he needs or the amazingly smooth

Colombian coffee from Java House, Peel and Poor Pods,

because sleep deprivation probably a thing for Mike right now,

but there's an energy even though he is a media man and not necessarily there on a fan trip. There is just an energy about this Indiana football team and what we saw in Pasadena. He is in Chicago on his way back. Mike, how are you? I'm good. How are you doing? I am well. Thank you. Happy New Year to you, by the way.

Thank you, sir. Let's begin with this. I'm strictly curious from your eyes estimate.

You would say that that crowd last night was what percent Indiana fans?

Yeah, you know, it's funny I was talking about that because you see all those, you know, media members kind of throw out numbers,

and I think sometimes you think, really, but like, you know, I spent some time kind of looking at it. It's hard, obviously, because the red of it all and the shared colors. But, like, I was kind of standing out, and, you know, it was a very kind of how to get in the stadium. there was a lot of Q lines and so i was kind of watching uh this one kind of section where all the fans were lined up and watching to kind of

see them come in and it was like it really did feel like 80 20 like i mean that's significant

of a split uh you know i don't know how that came through kind of on the broadcast, but, you know, like the pregame, anytime things Indiana's were shown, there were cheers, Alabama, they were just like all the simple stuff of just like a home game type of thing. And yeah, it just felt like, and I don't think it's an exaggeration. I think it was that, you know, you saw it in the city kind of leading up to the days of the game,

and you're like, man, maybe Alabama's just staying somewhere else. But like, it's just the fans. But like, yeah, that's what it felt like to me. You know, the story, there are so many storylines about this, Mike. and at this point I think we should just throw out any doubts or any reason of doubts

when it comes to Kurt Signetti-led teams.

I just, this is a remarkable job that he has done.

Now, there is some truth to the fact that this is a veteran team.

It's not a veteran team in terms of playing with one another, but it's a

veteran team in terms of, you know, they've used NIL to go out and put together this team

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