{"id":1232,"date":"2013-08-20T06:15:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T13:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2025-01-09T19:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T00:46:12","slug":"did-dandan-really-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2013\/08\/20\/did-dandan-really-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Dandan really resign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1234\" style=\"width: 373px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/163742zffozo3b8kk2kb2z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/163742zffozo3b8kk2kb2z.jpg\" alt=\"Ricky Dandan, head coach of the UP Fighting Maroons. Photo from PBA Online.\" width=\"373\" height=\"249\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/163742zffozo3b8kk2kb2z.jpg 373w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/163742zffozo3b8kk2kb2z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ricky Dandan, head coach of the UP Fighting Maroons. Photo from PBA Online.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Several reports on Sunday informed the public of University of the Philippines Fighting Maroon Ricky Dandan\u2019s resignation as head coach, but did he really resign?<\/p>\n<p>According to several media sources, Dandan expressed his resignation on Saturday, right after enduring the team\u2019s eighth straight loss in the UAAP Men\u2019s Basketball tournament, with the Ateneo Blue Eagles winning with 67 against UP\u2019s 59.<\/p>\n<p>Other sources say that Dandan\u2019s resignation first started circulating within the UP alumni community and team management, which then officially reached the offices of UP Chancellor Caesar Saloma and UP College of Human Kinetics (CHK) Dean Ronualdo Dizer on Monday, who both represent UP in the UAAP and the ones who have the power to appoint and dismiss any UP sports program staff.<\/p>\n<p>CHK Dean Dizer reportedly said that they cannot confirm anything until documents are provided, but one thing\u2019s for sure: the Maroons will need a coach by Wednesday\u2019s game with University of the East Red Warriors.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy arimidex online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/arimidex.html\">https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/arimidex.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>But on Sunday, UP forward JR Gallarza tweeted otherwise, saying that \u201cCoach Ricky did not quit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/162711stmvstkv8v49e8yv.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/162711stmvstkv8v49e8yv.png\" alt=\"162711stmvstkv8v49e8yv\" width=\"452\" height=\"284\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/162711stmvstkv8v49e8yv.png 452w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/162711stmvstkv8v49e8yv-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In another source, CHK Dean Dizer said that he hasn\u2019t received a resignation letter from Dandan as of Sunday afternoon. Other sources are even asking if Dandan really quit or was he fired.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy clomiphene online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/clomiphene.html\">https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/clomiphene.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Dandan has been the Maroon&#8217;s head coach for the last three seasons, out of which the team garnered 3 wins out of a total of 33 games.<\/p>\n<p>As of latest posting on Inquirer.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy hydroxychloroquine online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/hydroxychloroquine.html\">https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/hydroxychloroquine.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>net on Monday evening, Dandan is officially out and no longer the head coach of the UP Fighting Maroons.<\/p>\n<p>Rey Madrid, a former Fighting Maroon player and coach, is likely to replace Dandan; with former player Poch Juinio as one of the coaching assistants.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in for more of the latest developments in this story.<\/p>\n<p><em>With reports from ABS-CBN News, Inquirer.net, and Olmin Leyba<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several reports on Sunday informed the public of University of the Philippines Fighting Maroon Ricky Dandan\u2019s resignation as head coach, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports","mauthors-ching-dee","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282034,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/282034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}