Who doesn't want a balanced and fair recruitment and athletic benefits for the UAAP?
Assuming UST is really that "clean" when it comes to the recruitment and treatment of their student athletes, what it does is truly admirable and praiseworthy. Unfortunately the UAAP isn't a place for the righteous. If you still haven't noticed, it's a theater of war where each team is out for their own glory; at the expense of others or conniving with the enemy whenever necessary just to get the most favorable outcome.
It's just as downright dirty as politics and like politics (let's just start with the PDAF scandal), winning at all costs involves almost everyone and is already part of the culture. It's so deep rooted only a revolution or dictatorial rule can put an end to it. If you can't stop these government officials, what more the UAAP? A private entity. Who will do the check and balance? It's like asking the senators to conduct a check and balance among themselves.
Unless the CHED and PSC comes up with a governing body that will regularize collegiate sports, don't expect recruitment to be fair any time soon. And even if such a body exists, what's to stop the rich schools from influencing this body?
The Pingoy-Mbala hullaballoo pretty much exposed the realities of the UAAP and how powerless the righteous parties are. More than anything else, the "policies" of the UAAP is really just a give and take between a bunch of hypocritic and selfish crabs who simply want to win and go home with the bragging rights. Survival of the fittest. It's as simple as that.
