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Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Friday, April 11, 2014

UP proposes reforms for the UAAP


This appears on philstar.com

UP proposes reforms for the UAAP
by rick olivares

During the public hearing for the two proposed senate bills for the protection of student-athletes, Dean Ronaldo Dizer of the University of the Philippines’ College of Human Kinetics bared some ideas from his school regarding reforms in the UAAP.

Dizer scored the lack of rules based on recruiting practices and called for their removal. “They are immoral and unethical,” underscored the State University official.

He named a number of concerns about collegiate sports:
1.    The lack of rules with regards to visitation on potential recruits.
2.    There seems to be no limit with regards to the material gifts heaped upon recruits.
3.    The absence of proper documentation on recruits as well as their authentication.
4.    The proliferation of Team A, B, and C for some schools that is tantamount to hoarding players while others can barely put up a Team A.
5.    Players being demoted to extend their playing years.
6.    The proliferation of foreign players.
7.    The absence of a compliance guide for boosters and alumni with regards to recruitment and support.

Dizer also named some possible solutions to the problems of collegiate sports:

1. The lack of rules with regards to visitation on potential recruits.
The visitation of potential recruits should be allowed on the last six months of a player’s high school year with proper communication with coaches and school authorities of the potential recruits.
Securing the proper documents for his/her release.

2. There seems to be no limit with regards to the material gifts heaped upon recruits.
An allowance cap of not more than P10,000 monthly
Packages should be limited to scholarship, board and lodging, and transportation. No signing bonuses.

3. The absence of proper documentation on recruits as well as their authentication.
The submission of all specified documents

4. The proliferation of Team A, B, and C for some schools that is tantamount to hoarding players while others can barely put up a Team A.
Limit the athletic scholarship slots of the university
There should be a length of stay on Team B or C should be one year. If the player will not be promoted then he should be allowed to transfer to another school without any financial obligations.

5. Players being demoted to extend their playing years.
This practice should not be allowed!

6. The proliferation of foreign players.
By the year 2019, there should be no foreign players in the UAAP.

7. The absence of a compliance guide for boosters and alumni with regards to recruitment and support.
Each school must create or formulate a compliance guide for boosters, alumni, and friends of each university based on the school charter of UAAP rules.

“Of course, this proposal that has yet to be tackled formally,” admitted Dizer after the public hearing. “We as a league need to sit down and discuss a lot of matters and we need to reach an understanding of what we are trying to achieve and teach our youth.”



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Dean Dizer asked some help in crafting this and will do so. I will also want to sit down with him because I disagree with one of the reforms and that is on the foreign players. 


4 comments:

  1. Ateneo, La Salle and other schools owned by the Taipans are guilty as charged.

    I am happy that U.P. has finally come out with a very solid and comprehensive

    complaint that will bring back the UAAP into its Amateur status. They really hit

    it right at the head of the nail and admittedly our players and the star recruits

    have really been spoiled and showered with so much material benefits which

    only befit the professional ranks. And perhaps that will also eradicate the problem

    of gambling and game fixing which has soiled the league for so many decades.

    I am all for what U.P. is proposing and I affirm that all their observations are

    genuine. Let us develop our local players. We should be proud of our Filipino

    players and we used to dominate Asian Basketball by using Filipino players

    like Jaworski, Adornado, Atoy Co........How can we say that they are truly

    Filipinos?....."Masmalutong pa sila magmura kaysa sa atin"...Hehehehe

    Best regards!

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    1. With all due respect, developing a 6'4-6'6" local player into a center instead of a forward is a step in the wrong direction for player development. And how would our players go against Haddad and Co if they're only used to playing against short centers? This is a reason why I disagree with the banning of foreign players

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  2. I agree with all of UP's suggestion except for #4:
    Limit the athletic scholarship slots of the university

    Sayang naman yung mga mapag-aaral ng libre.

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  3. I agree with 1, 2, 3, and 7. 4 to 6 are either sketchy or far-fetched. Teams B and C are there for aspirants, or who didn't make the cut for Team A. Since the UAAP is the most popular collegiate league, a lot of high school student-athletes would try out. Being demoted to Team B means you weren't good enough as they hoped. It's a long-shot to get back to Team A since your spot might be filled by a new student. Not a ban, but a limit should be imposed on foreign student-athletes. This suggestion is just sour-graping since UP had foreign student-athletes in the past (Remember Robson Bornaccin?).

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