Brent Vigen

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Guy is going to be a home run hire for whoever is smart enough to get him.

Tremendous coach
 
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MSU is riding a wave of seniors and is having their dream season this year. Seems like a good time for Vigen to jump if he gets an offer he likes.
 

DonlugoQ

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Wyoming folks were less than impressed with him as their OC if memory serves me correctly.
 

BTF69

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I have no idea about these kinds of jobs so I looked it up. He makes 214K a year. Which face it, is great money.

Is there "pressure" at a Montana State? I have no idea.

Now, with that said, he would make at least 10 times that at a P4/5 school, which is clearly life changing money.
 

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I have no idea about these kinds of jobs so I looked it up. He makes 214K a year. Which face it, is great money.

Is there "pressure" at a Montana State? I have no idea.

Now, with that said, he would make at least 10 times that at a P4/5 school, which is clearly life changing money.

To make 214k a year.


 

king_kong_

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I have no idea about these kinds of jobs so I looked it up. He makes 214K a year. Which face it, is great money.

Is there "pressure" at a Montana State? I have no idea.

Now, with that said, he would make at least 10 times that at a P4/5 school, which is clearly life changing money.
Eh not pressure like at a big time program but they’re pretty rabid up there in both Bozeman and Missoula

You have to produce to stay at those places, they’re football towns
 

BTF69

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Eh not pressure like at a big time program but they’re pretty rabid up there in both Bozeman and Missoula

You have to produce to stay at those places, they’re football towns
So they have their "local" sports talk shows and stuff like that and the fans actually follow wins, not just tailgating.

****, isn't Montana crazy expensive to live in too? Or is that more Wyoming?
 

BTF69

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To make 214k a year.


Hahaha! Right???


I know everyone (but me) makes 214K a year, benches 350, ***** like a porn star and actually is getting fuller thicker hair as they age...but man...sign me up for 214 a year.
 

king_kong_

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So they have their "local" sports talk shows and stuff like that and the fans actually follow wins, not just tailgating.

****, isn't Montana crazy expensive to live in too? Or is that more Wyoming?
Yes to the first question

Answer to the second is it depends
 

king_kong_

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Who is the "big" team there, Montana State or Montana?
Also depends

Id guess those fan bases to be pretty similar sized and it’s regional

I don’t know who the people on the plains root for but NDSU might be closer to 1/4+ of the state than those 2
 

BTF69

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If you ever get a chance to go to a game at either place do it

It is like NU football must’ve been back in the ‘70s

Very awesome
See, I would imagine it is a blast!

I saw ESPN College Gameday at NDSU once and it looks amazing.

It is like the entire town just embraces it.
 

thall_

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Who is the "big" team there, Montana State or Montana?
Born in Montana.

It used to be overwhelmingly Grizzly.

Similar dichotomy to Oklahoma-Oklahoma State.

The gap has gotten a little closer but you’re more likely to see Grizzly merch than Bobcat merch.
 

BTF69

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Born in Montana.

It used to be overwhelmingly Grizzly.

Similar dichotomy to Oklahoma-Oklahoma State.

The gap has gotten a little closer but you’re more likely to see Grizzly merch than Bobcat merch.
Is one school "better"?

I have sent a few, very few, students to Montana State and one of the big reasons the mention is the skiing is amazing.
 

thall_

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Is one school "better"?

I have sent a few, very few, students to Montana State and one of the big reasons the mention is the skiing is amazing.
I’m biased because my family is MSU alum.

I think the fair take is that MSU is more respected in the STEM world, but that is limited to my field.
 
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I have no idea about these kinds of jobs so I looked it up. He makes 214K a year. Which face it, is great money.

Is there "pressure" at a Montana State? I have no idea.

Now, with that said, he would make at least 10 times that at a P4/5 school, which is clearly life changing money.
MSU is traditionally the Griz’s little brother other than a couple outlier years in the distant past and a bit more recently. Vigen’s predecessors raised the bar and he has kept up that momentum. But this is MSU’s best year since 1984. The money difference is night and day.
 
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Is one school "better"?

I have sent a few, very few, students to Montana State and one of the big reasons the mention is the skiing is amazing.
Montana State has become the popular choice and enrollment has overtaken Montana over the past decade. Skiing - bridger bowl is 20 minutes from campus and big sky is an hour - yes, awesome
 
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I’m biased because my family is MSU alum.

I think the fair take is that MSU is more respected in the STEM world, but that is limited to my field.
MSU is more the engineering/math/hard sciences school. Hopefully UM can get their act together more in that area while keeping some of their traditional strengths. Both campuses are great but Missoula is tough to beat.
 

BTF69

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MSU is more the engineering/math/hard sciences school. Hopefully UM can get their act together more in that area while keeping some of their traditional strengths. Both campuses are great but Missoula is tough to beat.
They grab lots of Seattle kids, don't they?
 
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Montana State has become the popular choice and enrollment has overtaken Montana over the past decade. Skiing - bridger bowl is 20 minutes from campus and big sky is an hour - yes, awesome
Missoula has great ski areas that have luckily stayed under the radar. Bozeman area has exploded and is basically unrecognizable compared to 20 years ago.
 

HUSKERFAN66

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Eh not pressure like at a big time program but they’re pretty rabid up there in both Bozeman and Missoula

You have to produce to stay at those places, they’re football towns
Better win or they'll turn Beth Dutton on ya
 

huskat

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So they have their "local" sports talk shows and stuff like that and the fans actually follow wins, not just tailgating.

****, isn't Montana crazy expensive to live in too? Or is that more Wyoming?
214k salary in Bozeman will get you a shed with a hole in the roof.
 

huskat

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Is one school "better"?

I have sent a few, very few, students to Montana State and one of the big reasons the mention is the skiing is amazing.
Can confirm. Amazing college town. Great engineering, expensive as hell.