Utes looking to hire Alex Jensen

[homeytennis]

I can believe in the normal course of business that Jensen got a nice raise from the Jazz. If you are a hot commodity, you have some leverage.

 

[Jazzman12]

I can believe in the normal course of business that Jensen got a nice raise from the Jazz. If you are a hot commodity, you have some leverage.

Agreed and for the record, even if Smith meddled in the situation with the intent of helping out BYU, I don’t have a problem with it. When you’re a self made billionaire and you use your equity to acquire the most beloved sporting institution in the state, you should be able to do whatever the hell you wanna do- within reason of course. From a Jazz only perspective, keeping Alex Jensen on staff for as long as humanly possible can be seen as nothing other than a huge win.

As long as the Jazz remain his top priority (and it’s fairly obvious that they will), he should be allowed to play BYU fanboy to his hearts content without Ute fans getting all up in their feels about it. Nobody’s perfect after all.

 

[TheGoldStandard]

I don’t know how accurate the rumors are- if at all, but there’s a faction of Ute fans claiming that new Jazz owner Ryan Smith- a longtime fanatic and booster of all BYU sports put his fingers on the scale with Alex Jensen and swayed him from taking the Utah job.

It’s a little too tinfoil hat for my liking, but if by some chance there’s any truth to it, what an interesting dynamic now at play across the state of Utah sporting landscape. Hell, maybe it’s not too much of a stretch. If Smith could redirect Jensen away from Utah with a pay raise and/or a promise he gets to replace Quin should he decide to walk away anytime soon, all while blocking his alma mater’s rival from securing their #1 HC candidate, why wouldn’t he do that? If you’re the BYU loving owner of the Utah Jazz, probably the only thing sweeter than keeping Alex Jensen in your organization, is keeping him out of Utah’s.

Not gonna lie, if I owned the Jazz and the opportunity to put the screws to BYU presented itself, I’d do it in a heartbeat with zero remorse. But I’m a really small person...‍

Well, Craig Smith is a good pickup for Utah. He is a really good coach. So even if that theory were true, I'm not sure this helps BYU.