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APPLICANT. Former Santo Tomas University star player Ed Cordero attends the Tabloid Organization’s Usapang Sports online forum on Philippine Sports on Thursday (September 10, 2020). Cordero said he ran as head coach of the Growling Tigers after former Aldin Ayo resigned as coach. (Screenshot)
MANILA – Former Santo Tomas University (UST) basketball star Ed Cordero confirmed Thursday that he is running as head coach of the Growling Tigers for the upcoming season of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP).
“Yesterday I sent an email to Father (Ermito) of Sagón expressing my intention,” Cordero said on the Usapang Sports online forum of the Philippine Tabloid Organization in Philippine Sports.
He’s just joined a growing list of former Tigers looking at the coaching job vacated by Aldin Ayo, including Siot Tanquingcen, Chris Cantonjos, Estong Ballesteros and Gilbert Lao.
Ayo resigned as UST’s head coach on Friday night.
The UAAP, however, did not release Ayo from sanctions despite his resignation, as the league slapped him with an indefinite suspension.
If accepted as head coach, Cordero plans to quickly summon the players who have decided to stay.
“Whoever is left should talk to him as soon as possible (I need to speak to those who stay as soon as possible), “he said.” We have to tell them that this is the plan (that this is the plan) “.
In the midst of investigating a training bubble that Ayo allegedly installed in his Capuy hometown of Sorsogon, four of the Growling Tigers’ key players, CJ Cansino, Rhenz Abando, Ira Bataller, and Brent Paraiso, left UST and joined. they transferred to other universities. leaving only Chabi Chabi Yo and Sherwin Concepción to lead the team for the UAAP season 83.
The good news for Cordero, who was once Mapua’s assistant coach, knows Concepción personally as the latter played for Mapua’s junior counterpart at the Malaya Science High School.
Cordero starred in UST, later nicknamed Glowing Goldies, in the late 1970s.
He once scored 54 points for UST in a 1979 UAAP game, a league record that stands to this day, though former Eastern University star Alvin Pasaol came close to eclipsing it with a 49-point explosion in 2017. (PNA)
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