Former coach Aldin Ayo has been indefinitely banned in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. The former University of Santo Tomas head coach will be prohibited from holding any post from all eight member-schools at the end of a thorough deliberation of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Board of Trustees on Wednesday, September 9.
"After a thorough deliberation, the UAAP BOT ratified the decision of the BMD to ban coach Aldin Ayo indefinitely from participating, in any capacity, in all UAAP events and UAAP sanctioned-acitivities," the statement read.
The Board of Trustees, made up of the presidents of the league's eight member schools, based its decision on the report of the UST fact-finding committee which tagged the Sorsogon-born mentor as the "mastermind" of the Bicol bubble training that got the school in hot water, both with the league and the government.
"The ban is based on the UST report that showed Ayo endangering the health and well-being of the student athletes under his charge when he conducted the training during a government-declared state of public emergency intended to arrest the COVID-19 outbreak," the statement continued.
Ayo has established himself as one of the best coaches in the college ranks after leading Letran and La Salle to championships as well as steering UST to the finals this past UAAP Season 82 in just his second season in charge. He announced his resignation on September 4, which UST accepted on the morning of September 5.
Here is UAAP's statement in full:
Student athlete CJ Cansino revealed on August 21 that he was removed from the Growling Tigers team. Later that day, Fighting Maroons coach Bo Perasol announced Cansino's transfer to the University of the Philippines. From there, speculations about the Tigers' Sorsogon bubble arose, with more documentary evidence arising following Cansino's departure, ranging from a copy of a waiver for the players' parents to allow them to train in Sorsogon down to screenshots from the UST Growling Tigers' groupchat, which revealed the team's alleged "less-than-ideal" situation in the bubble.
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This story originally appeared on Spin.ph. Minor edits have been made by the SPOT.ph editors.
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