The UAAP Board of Managing Directors (BMD) has recommended sanctioning University of Santo Tomas men’s basketball coach Aldin Ayo for being allegedly responsible for holding a training bubble in Sorsogon during quarantine.
Sources said the recommendation will be forwarded to the league’s Board of Trustees (BOT) composed of Presidents from the eight member universities, which will finally decide on the issue.
It was not clear if the sanction would be a suspension or a ban.
The UAAP Board of Managing Directors convened on Thursday to tackle issues of teams allegedly training despite government health protocols, but no word yet on the reports of other schools.
The “Sorsogon bubble” controversy has put UST in the spotlight over the past few weeks, causing the departure of its five players and the resignation of the university’s athletic director Fr. Jannel Abogado OP.
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In a statement, the UAAP Board of Managing Directors said their recommendations to the Board of Trustees cannot be made public at the moment “out of respect to the member-school concerned and the decision-making process of the BOT.”
“Following a lengthy discussion, the UAAP BMD drafted its recommendations, which will be submitted to the UAAP Board of Trustees for review and approval,” the statement read.
A separate meeting between officials of the Joint Administrative Order (JAO) Group would meet next week to determine the next steps on the issue following Tuesday’s meeting with UAAP officials.