{"id":2461,"date":"2025-06-21T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T13:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/2461\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T13:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T13:32:07","slug":"utah-basketballs-alex-jensen-weighs-in-on-house-vs-ncaa-settlement-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/2461\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah basketball’s Alex Jensen weighs in on House vs. NCAA settlement \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plenty has changed in college basketball since Alex Jensen<\/a> was last roaming the sidelines as an assistant coach in the game nearly 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

College athletics made a seismic shift earlier this month when Senior District Judge Claudia Wilken approved the House v. NCAA settlement<\/a>, paving the way for a new era of college sports that includes schools being able to make direct payments to student-athletes.<\/p>\n

The settlement goes into effect July 1. One of Utah basketball\u2019s top players, forward Keanu Dawes, became the school\u2019s first student-athlete to sign a revenue share agreement with the university.<\/p>\n

During the financial year 2025 \u2014 which runs July 2025 through June 2026 \u2014 schools that opt into the settlement will be able to pay up to an estimated $20.5 million dollars to student-athletes.<\/p>\n

Not long after the settlement was reached, Utah athletic director Mark Harlan said<\/a> Utah was \u201call-in on investing up to the maximum allowable in revenue share,\u201d while adding the school is finalizing plans for how the revenue will be shared.<\/p>\n

Navigating the complexities of the settlement is just one of a laundry list of things that Jensen, who spent the past dozen years as an NBA assistant coach, has been working through since being announced as the Runnin\u2019 Utes\u2019 17th head coach<\/a> on March 6. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe learning curve is bigger for me than the guys that have been in (college basketball), but that\u2019s why I hired a lot of people around me that are smart,\u201d Jensen told the Deseret News in an interview this week.<\/p>\n

Those hirings have included bringing in Wes Wilcox<\/a>, a former NBA executive and most recently the Sacramento Kings\u2019 assistant general manager, as the program\u2019s GM. <\/p>\n

Jensen has also brought on Raphael Chillious, Eric Daniels and Martin Schiller as assistant coaches.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be like this for a while, because you have more questions of what you can do and how you can do it,\u201d Jensen said in terms of figuring out to best utilize revenue sharing. <\/p>\n

The 49-year-old Jensen, who once starred for the Utes and was named Deseret News\u2019 Mr. Basketball during his standout prep career at Viewmont High before that, sees the settlement as a positive move for the sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s the right direction. I think it\u2019s a huge step into normalizing everything and getting some guardrails to the whole thing, and I think it\u2019s only the beginning of the transformation of college sports,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

One part of the settlement includes having NIL third-party deals that involve college athletes vetted through a clearinghouse, NIL Go. <\/p>\n

The clearinghouse will determine if the deals meet \u201cfair market value,\u201d with the ability to approve or reject each deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe teams or the programs and universities that have an understanding of it and ask the right questions and get ahead of it can take advantage of it and use it as an advantage,\u201d Jensen said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plenty has changed in college basketball since Alex Jensen was last roaming the sidelines as an assistant coach…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,1680,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-2461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-news-feed-local","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}