'The vision all along': Jeff Choate set Montana State on championship course
This wasn’t a passing of the torch. That had already happened 10 months earlier when Brent Vigen was hired to succeed Jeff Choate as the head coach at Montana State. Instead, the moment when Vigen and Choate embraced on the field at Bobcat Stadium following MSU’s 31-17 victory over South Dakota State on Dec. 18, which clinched the program’s first national title game berth in 37 years, was symbolic of one man’s foundational goals being augmented and carried toward the finish line by the other.