The Basketball Coaches Association of the Philippines (BCAP) will not rest on its fight to stop the assumption of American Ron Jacobs as head coach of San Miguel Beer in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).

Thus, stressed BCAP president Joseller "Yeng" Guiao who, in a telephone interview with the Bulletin yesterday, added that his group would elevate the case to Labor secretary Leonardo Quisumbing if his regional director for NCR Romeo Young does not revoke the license he granted Jacobs to coach in the pro league.

Saying that BCAP's action came upon the recommendation of the DOLE secretary himself, Guiao said that Young faces charges of "incompetence and gross misjudgement" for ruling in favor of Jacobs and San Miguel Beer.

"We are giving DOLE enough time to correct its mistake and if there is no action until Monday, we will seek a higher authority on this matter," said Guiao, a former PBA coach who is now also commissioner of the Philippine Basketball League.

The BCAP, through Guiao, wrote DOLE NCR regional director Romeo Young last Monday asking the latter to "rectify its oversight" in issuing a working permit to Jacobs.

"Our association maintains that your issuance of permit to Mr. Jacobs is a violation of the Supreme Court ruling based on the Tim Cone vs. Ruben Torres decision promulgated on April 22, 1991," Guiao said in his letter to Young. "May I emphasize that our only desire is the proper implementation of the law based on existing jurisprudence."

By providing DOLE with a copy of the Supreme Court ruling, Guiao said that Young's office cannot claim ignorance of the former which could have prevented him from giving Jacobs the go-signal to call the shots for the Beermen in the PBA First Conference.

Guiao also contested Young's reasons for his decision especially when the latter said that Jacobs would take two local coaches as his understudies for the eventual transfer of his expertise and the difference in the standard of coaching between the Philippines and the United States.

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