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Post by wildcat on Nov 7, 2006 19:57:57 GMT -6
Watching the Toldeo-NIU game on ESPN. They broke in and said that a Miami football player named Brian Pata (sp?) was shot and killed.
Pretty horrible stuff.
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Post by airman on Nov 7, 2006 20:25:48 GMT -6
where is eddie " straigh arrow" genero when we need him to take over a program in trouble.
miami is in need a of a savior. sad and tragic this stuff has to happen. I know FSU had this happen about 20 yrs ago.
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Post by fort on Nov 7, 2006 20:40:30 GMT -6
Jeez. That's really awful. ESPN is saying he was shot shortly after leaving the practice facility near an apartment complex. Truely sad.
RIP Bryan Pata
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Post by wingt74 on Nov 11, 2006 19:13:34 GMT -6
Would never have happened if it weren't for the brawl. Miami U has some responsibility for this players death IMO
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Post by phantom on Nov 11, 2006 22:54:15 GMT -6
Wait a minute. I have no love for Miami but what does the brawl have to do with the shooting?
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Post by wingt74 on Nov 12, 2006 6:24:56 GMT -6
Rumor has it that it was an FIU player that shot and killed this Miami player...with motive coming from the brawl.
BRawling is the type of culture that is fostered at Miami. Every player should have been kicked off the team that participated in the brawl. Now a player is dead.
At work, I punch a co-worker in the face. I get a 1 week suspension. I come back and shoot a co-worker dead. Employer is partiually responsible.
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Post by wildcat on Nov 12, 2006 7:42:05 GMT -6
Rumor has it that it was an FIU player that shot and killed this Miami player...with motive coming from the brawl. BRawling is the type of culture that is fostered at Miami. Every player should have been kicked off the team that participated in the brawl. Now a player is dead. At work, I punch a co-worker in the face. I get a 1 week suspension. I come back and shoot a co-worker dead. Employer is partiually responsible. Brawls happen often, not just at Miami. If this young man was in fact killed by an FIU player, I think it says a lot more about that particular FIU player than it does about Miami football. |
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Post by jdwatters on Nov 12, 2006 11:23:05 GMT -6
On the contrary..
I've actually seen reports that Pata had nothing to do with the brawl. It seems every time they talk about him the words "big-hearted" and "soft-spoken" are used before his name. I know its tough given Miami's year and previous history to overlook incidents from the past, but I think we as spectators should take a wait and see approach to the circumstances surrounding his death. Could have very well been a wrong place wrong time type of thing.
Coach Watters
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Post by tedseay on Nov 13, 2006 5:19:54 GMT -6
I must ask -- was anyone really surprised by this? I mean, the way you would have been surprised if this had been a Penn State, or Notre Dame, or for that matter a Grambling or Howard player?
Miami has been playing with fire for years in terms of the athletes it recruits to its program -- check Ray Lewis's rap sheet if you don't know what I'm talking about. Thug culture attracts thugs.
Whether the young man who was killed was or wasn't involved in the brawl with FIU is immaterial -- Miami has been asking for an incident like this for years, and excusing the inexcusable for far too long while the team was winning championships.
"As ye sow, so shall ye reap" applies all too well in this situation.
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