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"Miami's Pata Shot To Death University of Miami defensive tackle Bryan Pata was shot and killed Tuesday night at an apartment complex in Miami, Miami-Dade County police said. Police had no other details. Pata, a 6-foot-4, 272-pound senior, is from Miami."

THUG LYFE

11/7/2006 9:12:30 PM

another great development in the canes season

11/7/2006 9:15:25 PM

FIRE COKER!

11/7/2006 9:15:53 PM

I really hate to do this because the loss of a life is always a tragic incident

but is this really supposed to fucking surprise me?

11/7/2006 9:16:54 PM

come on kids. lets be a bit serious. it's never a good thing when someone is acctually killed. as much fun as we have poking fun at life in general, it's pretty tragic.


I guess you make your bed....

11/7/2006 9:17:17 PM

damn, that sucks

11/7/2006 9:18:46 PM

^^^ you're assuming that the kid was involved in something shady? he's in miami. he very well could've been a mugging victim.

remember our freshman d-lineman that was shot twice in a month by a someone trying to mug him? we can't talk shit about this.

[Edited on November 7, 2006 at 9:19 PM. Reason : ]

11/7/2006 9:19:06 PM

sorry for the family

miami has a serious image problem they need to fix right now

11/7/2006 9:22:43 PM

miami university can't do shit about the crime problems in the city of miami and miami-dade county.

11/7/2006 9:23:31 PM

they've had the image problem ever since the early nineties - this is by far though the worst manifestation of it,... even if the player wasn't involved in anything wrong, many people will still dismiss it as just another case of miami football being miami football

i'm sorry it happened though

11/7/2006 9:25:11 PM

holdovers from the FIU game?

[Edited on November 7, 2006 at 9:28 PM. Reason : yea]

11/7/2006 9:28:15 PM

dang, i didn't even consider that, but i'm sure the police will atleast investigate that possibilty.

11/7/2006 9:28:58 PM

maybe if Miami wasnt such a fucking joke and world renowned for their thuggery, people wouldnt just shrug this off as "miami being miami"

the thing is, they dont care about their image or improving it. the fiu situation reaffirmed that fact.

11/7/2006 9:30:01 PM

If he was stabbed instead of shot, we could've blamed Baraka Atkins

11/7/2006 9:33:20 PM

RIP THUG



[Edited on November 7, 2006 at 9:40 PM. Reason : ]

11/7/2006 9:40:17 PM

didn't a few of their players get into a shootout a couple months ago?

11/7/2006 9:43:37 PM

pancaked

11/7/2006 9:47:59 PM

^^that was their hockey team

[Edited on November 7, 2006 at 9:48 PM. Reason : c]

11/7/2006 9:48:18 PM

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"maybe if Miami wasnt such a fucking joke and world renowned for their thuggery, people wouldnt just shrug this off as "miami being miami" the thing is, they dont care about their image or improving it. the fiu situation reaffirmed that fact."

You sir, are a fucking piece of shit.

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"RIP THUG"

Aren't assumptions and generalizations great?

11/7/2006 9:55:41 PM

You, sir, are the real fucking piece of shit because you can't see the truth here. Miami refuses to do anything to punish these assholes who think they can go around banging and beating up players and stomping on logos and all the other stupid shit they do. Why should any of us care when their "players" go and get themselves killed over some petty shit?

11/7/2006 10:11:30 PM

Stomping on logos? So what? Michigan State, Florida State, ECU, Texas A&M... hell even Navy .... I've seen them all do it or something pompous just like it. Get over it. Who cares? You have obviously not watched much college football.

Beating up players? Are you serious? Any football team would go apeshit if your 180 lb placeholder gets a cheap-shot and kicked in the head. Holy Cross versus Dartmouth? I'm not condoning using helmets as weapons or stomping someone, but fights happen. Yeah, Coach Larry Coker should have suspended Merriweather and Farr for the season and he should have yanked their scholarships.

You make it seem as this kid's life means less because of the team he plays for. That's what makes you a piece of shit. Grow up.

[Edited on November 7, 2006 at 10:27 PM. Reason : :]

11/7/2006 10:26:09 PM

^ were you there? do you know why the fuck he got shot? I bet if it was Kyle Wright, you'd suspect nothing different.

Fuckin stereotypes, a few thugs at Miami and you think that the whole god damn team is running the streets.

While you're at it, throw our team under the bus too, we're starting to get just as bad as they are

11/7/2006 10:27:08 PM

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"University of Miami defensive end Bryan Pata was shot and killed Tuesday night, shortly after leaving the practice field, school officials said. The circumstances around Pata's death were not immediately clear, and Miami-Dade police refused to release specific information about what happened. A formal announcement was expected from the university later Tuesday. "Right now, we're just gathering ourselves and just trying to pull ourselves together," Miami athletic director Paul Dee said. Pata, a graduate of Miami Central, was in his fourth year with the Hurricanes. He appeared in 41 games, making 23 starts, and was expected to be selected in next spring's NFL draft. It was at least the fourth time that tragedy involving a player has struck the Hurricanes in recent years. In April 1996, reserve linebacker and Miami native Marlin Barnes was murdered in a campus apartment. And in 2003, former Miami safety Al Blades was killed in a car accident, about a year after former Miami linebacker Chris Campbell — who had just completed his eligibility with the Hurricanes — also died in a crash. Pata's death was the second incident involving guns this season for the Hurricanes. In July, reserve safety Willie Cooper was shot in the buttocks when confronted in his yard before an early morning workout. Cooper was not seriously injured. Brandon Meriweather, one of Cooper's teammates and roommates, returned fire at Cooper's assailant, taking three shots that apparently missed, police said. Several Miami players, including Pata, said that incident was a robbery attempt, and cautioned other teammates to always be aware of their surroundings. "We're targets because we play for the University of Miami. ... These guys, they know who we are," Miami linebacker Jon Beason said shortly after the Cooper shooting. That incident prompted Miami coach Larry Coker to say that he did not want his players to have guns, even if they were possessing them legally."

These fucking faggots pack heat. They are college atheletes. They don't have to live out in the ghetto and bang and all of that shit, they CHOOSE to. They are worthless degenerates who get a kick out of pretending to be like 50 cent and then people like you take pity on them when they finally pay for their actions. You grow up and learn that they deserve whats coming to them for living this life style. Shit like this isn't a "tragic accident" when you're asking for it.

11/7/2006 10:29:04 PM

[Edited on November 7, 2006 at 10:31 PM. Reason : ^ you beat me]

11/7/2006 10:29:50 PM

dont come into the ob playin that stuff. you get yo but beat.

11/7/2006 10:49:04 PM

^ "you get yo behind beat"


Also, do you people seriously think every single Miami football player is a thug? I'm sure several of them are, Merriweather for sure, but I'd wait for the facts with this Pata fellow before I label this crime "gang related" and sprinkle some crack on it and forget about it.

11/7/2006 10:56:37 PM

you people? what the hell do you mean "you people"?!

11/7/2006 10:59:24 PM

he got smoked

11/7/2006 11:02:36 PM

so they're saying it was a suicide, eh?

very very interesting...

11/8/2006 1:01:33 AM

Miami players dont get drafted, they get arrested or wasted

11/8/2006 3:12:41 AM

Sound like a job for

11/8/2006 6:08:22 AM

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"These fucking faggots pack heat."

they were at HOME.

thats not "packing heat"

11/8/2006 7:55:03 AM

some of you guys are fucking assholes. The man is dead who gives a fuck about where he lived or who he played football for.

11/8/2006 8:14:42 AM

whoa...

that makes TWO college football players shot in the state of florida in the last 2-3 weeks...

[Edited on November 8, 2006 at 8:41 AM. Reason : at least i think the UF WR was shot, he might ahve just been assaulted]

11/8/2006 8:41:09 AM

This is totally unfortunate.

11/8/2006 8:57:33 AM

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"Shit like this isn't a "tragic accident" when you're asking for it. "

I'm pretty no one asks for being shot and killed, and it is tragic when anyone is murdered.

11/8/2006 9:05:13 AM

They talk to much shit.

They need to learn that Football/=Gangstar

11/8/2006 9:32:52 AM

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"Tragedy reduces football issues to instant insignificance BY GREG COTE gcote@MiamiHerald.com The unacceptable ignominy of the University of Miami football team's 5-4 record stopped mattering Tuesday night as surely as a heart stopped beating. The tenuous future of unpopular coach Larry Coker ceased to be the least bit important, at least for a little while. The injury to quarterback Kyle Wright's thumb retreated to instant insignificance. Hopefully, too, an agitated, jeering, dissatisfied Hurricanes Nation will pause and demand of itself today a moment of silence, or at least perspective, in this rancorous season. Just a moment, please? Bryan Pata died. Violently, by a bullet, inside his apartment in Kendall. He was a UM defensive tackle, a senior, down to his last few college games, before somebody took even those away. He was not a star. He was nobody's All-American. Nobody's future first-round draft pick. He was a solid pass-rusher who had led the team in quarterback pressures last year. He was a solid run-stopper who had selflessly switched positions from end to tackle before this season because the coaches asked him to. He had 11 career sacks, including two this year. He was not a star, but he was tough, liked, admired. He was a leader. Just two weeks ago, late in a teetering game at Georgia Tech, the defender ran onto the field into UM's offensive huddle to exhort his teammates. He cared that much. A SENSELESS DEATH Pata died senselessly Tuesday night, for no good reason, as a disproportionate number of young African-American males seem to in Miami and other big cities. You might not even have heard about a death such as his, except he happened to be a college football player. He wore No. 95. Sometime he wore dreadlocks. He loved to tinker with and restore old cars. He had seven older siblings. He was a Miami kid who grew up at Central High. He was going to get around to figuring out something to do with his life after football, until somebody with a gun decided none of that mattered all that much. He was 22, too young to die under every circumstance imaginable. Police had no motives, details or explanation for the crime Tuesday night. Pata, described as a Christian who didn't drink or party, deserves every assumption of his being an innocent victim. [The shame of this is that too many people nationwide are going to add this to the generic parade of ''UM football controversies.'' They will place this neatly in line right behind last month's brawl during the FIU game under the broad subhed, Hurricanes in the Headlines for the Wrong Reasons. As if Pata brought it on himself. As if Coker should have stopped it. As if anyone but the man with the gun in his hand was to blame. The tragic news broke across Miami Tuesday night, broke like hearts break, and it had to remind many of 10 years earlier, to April 13, 1996, when UM linebacker Marlin Barnes and his friend, Timwanika Lumpkins, were murdered in a campus apartment by her former boyfriend. FOOTBALL INCIDENTAL Football was peripheral then, too; incidental, as it was Tuesday night. Death is never choosy. Doesn't play favorites. Doesn't care who you are. It will take John F. Kennedy Jr. in a small plane, Dale Earnhardt Sr. in a fast car, a homeless man beaten by bats (*happened in Ft Lauderdale), Sonny Bono on a ski slope, Bryan Pata in a Kendall apartment, or someone you will never hear of who just slipped in his bathtub and hasn't even been missed yet (*old guy who died in Miami Beach and was never missed after months). Death, though, overwhelms everything, every time, at least in the time when we force ourselves to bow heads, for just a moment, between the regular beat of life, between the cheering or the resumption of complaint. In that moment, in a fleeting spasm of clarity, we understand that a 5-4 record is just what it is and not anything more: a disappointment. We understand then that this UM football season didn't become a tragedy until a bullet erased Bryan Pata for no good reason at all."

11/8/2006 11:12:07 AM

to the punk bitch who made this thread

get over your fucking stereotypes

you are probably the same person who things someone with a covered head is gonna blow your apartment complex up

11/8/2006 12:02:20 PM

please be more sensitive, somebody lost their life

11/8/2006 12:05:53 PM

i'm just curious here...but how many people on this messageboard had a handgun in college? better yet, who kept a handgun w/ them so that they could return fire at some potential "robbers".

im not saying this is not a tragic event, but it just seems to me there is more to the miami football players. i'm not calling them all "gangsters," but there is something goin on with that team that would make them more susceptible to an attack like this.

11/8/2006 12:14:03 PM

^ and your basis for this conclusion is that one player had a gun on him at his own house? got anything else?

11/8/2006 12:22:24 PM

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"These fucking faggots pack heat. They are college atheletes. They don't have to live out in the ghetto and bang and all of that shit, they CHOOSE to. They are worthless degenerates who get a kick out of pretending to be like 50 cent and then people like you take pity on them when they finally pay for their actions. You grow up and learn that they deserve whats coming to them for living this life style. Shit like this isn't a "tragic accident" when you're asking for it."

i bet you come from a white, middle class to upper-middle class family. i also bet you think all of miami is like what you see in will smith videos.

[Edited on November 8, 2006 at 3:01 PM. Reason : ]

11/8/2006 3:01:03 PM

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"^ and your basis for this conclusion is that one player had a gun on him at his own house? got anything else?"

he had a GUN.. I'm willing to bet it wasn't registered and he didnt have a permit for it either...

ITS A FUCKING GUN.. you aren't allowed to have them.. I cannot believe some people are so blinded that they would support this guy... What the hell are you people thinking.. he is a fucking thug... and yes, I'd say that it'd be safe to assume that most of the team is similar after their brawl and other news concerning Miami Hurricanes football

[Edited on November 8, 2006 at 3:24 PM. Reason : Meri]

11/8/2006 3:23:29 PM

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"they were at HOME. thats not "packing heat" "

having a gun is ridiculous... its bein a thug... if you are robbed then im sorry, at least you were a better person and took it... you just make yourself look stupid being a part of a shootout. im sure a lot of kids in raleigh would prefer that (just being robbed) than to risk their "bad ass" self in a shootout

11/8/2006 3:29:11 PM

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"he had a GUN.. I'm willing to bet it wasn't registered and he didnt have a permit for it either... "

earlier this year miami players were involved in a shootout. their guns were legal and registered so how much would you like to bet???

11/8/2006 3:52:40 PM

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"they were at HOME. thats not "packing heat" "

He had a gun. I don't care where you are, that's packing heat.

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"you are probably the same person who things someone with a covered head is gonna blow your apartment complex up"

not at all. im not some confederate flag waving bush loving redneck, im a realist who sees that these kids are nothing but punks and are just asking for trouble. if it was white people with guns behaving like this id have the exact same attitude. i dont hate skin colors, i hate behaviors.

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" i bet you come from a white, middle class to upper-middle class family. i also bet you think all of miami is like what you see in will smith videos."

again, wrong. but you have a choice with what you do with your life. i lived in a poorer area of the state (asheboro, NC) where there were a lot of gangs and guns and drugs and i grew up in a poor family. but i didnt resort to that stuff to get by in life, and they dont have to either. its all about CHOICES.

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"having a gun is ridiculous... its bein a thug... if you are robbed then im sorry, at least you were a better person and took it... you just make yourself look stupid being a part of a shootout. im sure a lot of kids in raleigh would prefer that (just being robbed) than to risk their "bad ass" self in a shootout"

at least someone here has some sense besides me.

11/8/2006 4:04:21 PM

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"ITS A FUCKING GUN.. you aren't allowed to have them.."

did i miss a constitutional amendment?

11/8/2006 4:05:21 PM

most of yall are missing the point...Pata wasnt involved in that first incident and the last article even stated he didnt even party or drink. Just because one of his teammates had a gun in an earlier incident doesnt mean that Pata was a thug...


have some respect

11/8/2006 4:08:22 PM

^ ding ding

hit the nail on the head

11/8/2006 4:13:45 PM