THE Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) would spare Aldin Ayo of any sanction on top of the indefinite ban the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) imposed on the former University of Santo Tomas (UST) Growling Tigers head coach.
“We at the SBP recognize that each league has its own constitution, by-laws and board members. We respect their [UAAP] decision and policies but we cannot enforce it on other stakeholders of the federation,” SBP Director of Operations Butch Antonio said.
Ayo made the rounds of the UAAP and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) where he steered Letran to the title in 2015. He was lured by De La Salle and coached the Green Archers to the Season 79 championship.
He later found himself in España after that, steering the Tigers to the Season 82 Finals where they lost to the Ateneo Blue Eagles.
The ban on Ayo is one of the worse sanctions the UAAP imposed in the last 15 years. In 2005, the league banned for life a De La Salle assistant team manager for tapping Arwind Santos’s nape in the De La Salle-Far Eastern University Finals and in 2006, De La Salle was banned for one year for playing two ineligible Archers.