Miami players to honor Pata by skipping class and showing up to practice late

CORAL GABLES, FL – “This is what Bryan would want” a somber Larry Coker uttered. Days after the death of defensive lineman Bryan Pata shocked the Miami Hurricane football team; players came to a conclusion on how to honor the memory of their fallen comrade.

      Players decided unanimously that in memory of Pata they would all start to skip class more often and not be so punctual for each practice. “When I asked the guys what they wanted to do for Bryan, I was talking about this weekend’s game” said Coker, the affable head coach of Miami’s grief stricken squad, “but I guess they took it a different way…oh well”.

      The players and coaches aren’t the only ones saddened by this horrible event. Teachers, classmates, and neighbors all remember Pata as well. “I remember Bryan,” said Pamela Ortiz, Pata’s botany professor “he came in and picked up a syllabus on the third day of class…he seemed like a very nice young man”.

      Tenants of Pata’s apartment complex also remember the gracious, responsible individual Bryan was. “I’d always holler at him for leavin’ his empty Colt .45 cans and Cigarillo butts all over the ground” said neighbor ShaRhonda Worthington, “and sometimes he’d pick ‘em up”.

      Fellow defensive lineman, and one of Pata’s closest friends, Teraz McCray says that for the rest of the season he plans to drink a 40 oz. and smoke a Blunt before arriving 30 minutes late for each practice because, “That’s what Big P would want”.

-theSportsbean.com