NDSU

North Dakota State won the program’s second straight NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) national championship on Jan. 5, 2013, with a 39-13 win over Sam Houston State. The Bison completed the season with a 14-1 record including a 7-1 ledger in winning the Missouri Valley Football Conference title.

For the first time in school history in 2012, the balanced Bison offense featured a pair of 1,000-yard rushers in D.J. McNorton and Sam Ojuri, and an 1,000-yard receiver in Warren Holloway in the same season. In addition, quarterback Brock Jensen passed for a school record 2,524 yards.

Jensen was selected as the MVP of the 2013 NCAA FCS Championship game.

Vigen helped to develop two-time Great West Football Conference Player of the Year quarterback Steve Walker. North Dakota State was 8th in rushing offense (219.82 ypg) and 19th in total offense (400.09 ypg) in the 2009 NCAA Division I FCS statistics. In the MVFC statistics, the Bison were 1st in rushing offense (210.2 ypg) and 3rd in total offense (382.9 ypg).

Vigen worked as the running backs coach in 2003 under head coach Craig Bohl. He was a member of former head coach Bob Babich's staff at NDSU for the previous five years, serving as a graduate assistant for three seasons (1998-2000) before becoming a fulltime coach in 2001 working with both the quarterbacks and tight ends.

A native of Buxton, N.D., Vigen played tight end for the Bison from 1993-97 and was a two-year starter. He was a member of three NCAA Division II playoff teams and the 1994 North Central Conference championship squad.

Vigen earned both his bachelor's degree (1998) and master's degree (2000) from North Dakota State. Brent and his wife, Molly, have three boys, Jake, Grant and Luke. Molly played basketball at NDSU and was a member of the 1996 NCAA Division II national championship team and three NCC title squads.