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Draft finally takes place; salary cap resolution to follow

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Thea Gagate–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net

The first-ever PVL Rookie Draft happens Monday night at Novotel Hotel in Cubao, and the league can finally check off the first of two activities it wants to implement that would hopefully instill—and keep—parity across the field beginning with the upcoming Reinforced Conference.

Ex-La Salle standout and Alas Pilipinas middle blocking ace Thea Gagate looms as the No. 1 overall pick by ZUS Coffee, and unlike in the past when direct recruiting was allowed, the next 46 players in the pool will also go through the process of being drafted.

Unresolved salary cap

The second item in the PVL’s parity agenda remains to be unresolved at the moment, with the league and its team owners yet to come up with individual and team salary caps, something which is expected to be ironed out after the Draft.

“The good thing that I could see in the long-term is it brings out more excitement in the games. I hope that’s what the drafting does,” PVL commissioner Sherwin Malonzo told the Inquirer with a mix of Filipino on Sunday.

The PVL and the teams have agreed, however, on putting a cap on rookies, with the first five picks to be given a maximum of P150,000 on their first year. A uniform players contract (UPC), will also be asked of all teams for all its players, all of them to be submitted to the Games and Amusements Board and the Office of the Commissioner.

Other rules

Other than the UPC, the league has already discussed with the teams discipline regulations, team commitment agreements and code of ethics as early as December last year as the PVL looks to shift the calendar and start a new season in October and finish by September 2025.

League president Ricky Palou will soon propose a P50-million salary cap per year for each team.

“After the Draft ceremony, we’ll be sending out a survey to each team because based on the previous surveys, I think P50M [a year] is more or less okay,” Malonzo said. “It’s not too high, but it’s not too low also. It’s not an exorbitant amount for a yearlong program.”

The Draft proceedings will run until all of the 12 teams stop picking from the pool. INQ



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Team owners’ reluctance to salary limits puzzles PVL chief

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Packed crowds for both the PVL and UAAP volleyball games has PNVF saying that volleyball is now the Philippines’ top sport.

Enforcing the first-ever Rookie Draft in the PVL should get off without a hitch, based on the success of the recent two-day Combine.

And that will be the first of two critical activities the league sees necessary to ensure parity among its teams, with titles contested on as level a playing field as possible.

But the second item in the league’s fairness agenda—the salary cap—has run into some stiff opposition with the team owners themselves, something which befuddles the PVL leadership since it is the welfare of each and every franchise that it is looking out for.

League president Ricky Palou talked at length to the Inquirer about this on Thursday, confused in a sense after some items in the PVL’s proposal for individual salary caps were rejected, particularly the maximum pay.Wanton recruitment and spending have characterized the past off-seasons of the highly successful PVL, and Palou, after seeing firsthand what this could do to the league—having served as an executive of the Philippine Basketball Association for several years—wants to address them.

“Some of them (team owners) don’t like the P250,000 a month maximum pay,” Palou said over the phone, referring to the league proposal. “They think it’s too low and that a lot of their players are receiving more than that now.”

The team owners also rejected Palou’s counter that live contracts stay, but after that, every player in the league should be governed by the individual limit.

However, the league didn’t encounter resistance as far as the minimum pay is concerned when it pitched for P50,000 a month, which Palou wants to happen after he had “heard of some teams paying some players just P30,000 (a month).”

Astronomical amounts

Unconfirmed reports have placed astronomical amounts as reasons behind some of the country’s brightest collegiate stars skipping their years of playing eligibility to turn pro, especially in the last two years when the league’s popularity reached unbelievable proportions.Some of those reports claim to even have signing bonuses, cars and jobs for family members as perks just for players to sign up.The Draft will be held July 8 with La Salle’s Thea Gagate to be picked first by Zus Coffee, and 46 other players awaiting as 12 teams set out to decide their fate.

As agreed upon with team owners, Gagate and the next four picks in the proceedings will be entitled to a maximum of P150,000 a month for the first year, with that figure gradually dwindling down for the lower selections.

Palou and the entire PVL leadership will again meet with the team owners to iron out these kinks. That meeting will take place the day after the Draft, and Palou will also propose a P50 million a year team cap.“We haven’t talked about that yet, they have yet to hear my proposal of P50 million a year,” Palou continued. “It’s easy to think that some of the teams are spending more than that now. But we have to be careful so that things don’t blow out of proportion.” INQ

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