First, a disclaimer.
The mere fact that I’m writing about this in my blog, I guess, bars any chance of me writing about this in (well, you know)
Another thing, the player who got the MOA, what is he thinking now, if you were in his place? The biggest tragedy in this issue is not the team who got snubbed, it’s the player who got the award.
For sure, this maybe the first award he gets, but for the questions to linger on his getting the award. How would you feel if you are in his place?
And, I purposely write this, after the Milo awarding, nothing can be done to change the fact, but what can be done, is hopefully, to avoid a similar situation.
What situation?
The MOA controversy.
Football is a team sport, choosing a Most Valuable Player is difficult for it is subjective. I once talked with a football guy (I forgot if he was with the media or a coach) that an MVP award in football is not a good thing, because football is all about team work.
But choosing the Most OUTSTANDING Athlete, on the other hand, is a different thing. The MOA, from my point of view, may not be that valuable. It is a matter of choosing who stands OUT most.
How so? The MOA may score the most goals, he may have made the most number of assists, but is he as valuable as your team leader? The guy who tells you to check that man? Or, after you take a fall, he helps you get up?
The MOA is not the MVP.
So why the big fuss over the MOA.
One, the Don Bosco snub.
Does Don Bosco have the right to expect that the MOA should come from them after they won the title?
No. Anybody can stand out in football.
And that should have been the end of the story. But the problem lies, when DBC asked what the criteria was for choosing the MOA.
That’s when the barnyard dung hit the ceiling.
Had they come up with concrete guidelines, this issue would have been long laid to rest.
A newcomer? The high school awardee wasn’t exactly a newcomer. The rest of the MOAs weren’t newcomers.
Granted, it was agreed by the coaches to only consider newcomers as MOA. Does the DBC bench stink that much?
Correct me if I am wrong, doesn’t DBC have any newcomer in their team? The same question goes to Springdale. Are both teams that good, that they are all veterans?
Here’s my take. They erred, and they made it worse by well, you know what they did.
One last thing, after the elementary finals—to be precise at least 20 minutes as DBC were having their pictorial already at the podium (or lectern, is it)– I approached them (haven’t you notice it’s a general ‘they’, ‘them’) and asked who the MOA was.
I was told it was still being deliberated.
The next day, a few minutes after the secondary finals, or should I say, a minute and a half, I asked who the MOA was….
P.S.
I guess, there will be no more Olympic Energy drink stories from this opinionated dude.
P.P.S.
I would like to thank RHB for giving me the courage to write about this. I’ve long wanted to write about this, opinions and such, the first day this broke out.
P.P.P.S.
Tomorrow, sobered with coffee, is a different matter. Let’s see how long this stays on the blog.
