Check and check leads to a really big check!

[lutecat]

Playing an NCAA Bowl Championship team: $15,000....check

Selling at least 12,000 cumulative season tickets: $15,000....check

Recognized as Big Sky Conference coach of the year: $10,000....check

Finish regular season as conference champions: $12,500....check

Achieving eight wins in regular season and postseason: $7,500...check

Achieving nine wins in regular season and postseason: $7,500...check

Achieving 10 or more wins in regular and postseason: $7,500...check

Qualifying for NCAA football championship sub-division playoff: $7,500....check

Advance to second round of FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) playoffs: $7,500...check

Advance to quarter-final round of FCS playoffs: $10,000...check

Advance to semi-final round of FCS playoffs: $5,000....check

Semi-final playoff game played at MSU: $10,000....check

Advance to national championship game of NCAA FCS: $15,000....check

Winning national championship of NCAA FCS: $50,000.....CHECK CHECK CHECK!!!!

[lutecat]

https://montanafreepress.org/2026/01/08 ... m_source=2


Also I learned today that Tessman's wife works at the MT Free Press. Its in a disclosure at the bottom of the article.

[CodyCat]

Isn’t there a bonus for beating the gris? I thought there was and I thought it was a lot.

[Bobcat4Ever]

Isn’t there a bonus for beating the gris? I thought there was and I thought it was a lot.

There is. You get to keep your job.

[wapiti]

Isn’t there a bonus for beating the gris? I thought there was and I thought it was a lot.

How about a bonus for beating them twice in one season?

[catsrback76]

Obviously the official incentives in his contract are listed, but opportunities are now opened up for sponsorships and engagements as well at a different level. Well earned and deserved!

[nanacat]

Obviously the official incentives in his contract are listed, but opportunities are now opened up for sponsorships and engagements as well at a different level. Well earned and deserved!

Hopefully all that is enough, for now, to keep him around. Time to run it back next year, and he's got the program to do it. If he can keep his coaching staff intact, that'll help too.

[MTmadeCat]

Well deserved for Coach Vigen. Proud to have him as our Head Coach. I hope the National Championship incentive for the rest of the staff is significant for them as well!

[BFcatfan]

Isn’t there a bonus for beating the gris? I thought there was and I thought it was a lot.

There is… he also got a big bonus for playing Oregon. There’s an article on MT 406 Sports app that explains all his and his assistant’s bonuses this year. Eye owning to say the least

[onceacat]

Isn’t there a bonus for beating the gris? I thought there was and I thought it was a lot.

How about a bonus for beating them twice in one season?

There is. Its the one for getting to the championship game.

[onceacat]

Obviously the official incentives in his contract are listed, but opportunities are now opened up for sponsorships and engagements as well at a different level. Well earned and deserved!

Hopefully all that is enough, for now, to keep him around. Time to run it back next year, and he's got the program to do it. If he can keep his coaching staff intact, that'll help too.

Yep. With incentives, hes making more than a bunch of G5 coaches...and after taxes, the gap between Vigen and middle tier G5 coaches (like Choate at UNR, for example) is only a couple hundred thousand a year.

[Montanabob]

Obviously the official incentives in his contract are listed, but opportunities are now opened up for sponsorships and engagements as well at a different level. Well earned and deserved!

Hopefully all that is enough, for now, to keep him around. Time to run it back next year, and he's got the program to do it. If he can keep his coaching staff intact, that'll help too.

Yep. With incentives, hes making more than a bunch of G5 coaches...and after taxes, the gap between Vigen and middle tier G5 coaches (like Choate at UNR, for example) is only a couple hundred thousand a year.

I would recheck that. I think he made more than Choate this year.

[MSU01]

Obviously the official incentives in his contract are listed, but opportunities are now opened up for sponsorships and engagements as well at a different level. Well earned and deserved!

Hopefully all that is enough, for now, to keep him around. Time to run it back next year, and he's got the program to do it. If he can keep his coaching staff intact, that'll help too.

Yep. With incentives, hes making more than a bunch of G5 coaches...and after taxes, the gap between Vigen and middle tier G5 coaches (like Choate at UNR, for example) is only a couple hundred thousand a year.

I would recheck that. I think he made more than Choate this year.

Choate makes over a million dollars a year just in base salary, I don't think Vigen earned quite that much in incentives!