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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

LSU SPORTS

Perrilloux dismissed from team

  • By SCOTT RABALAIS
  • Advocate sportswriter
  • Published: May 3, 2008 - Page: 1C - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.

It looked like Les Miles’ first “victory” at LSU back in 2005 — getting Ryan Perrilloux, arguably the nation’s best prep football player, to renege on his commitment to Texas and stay in state to play for the Tigers.

Pressed into service as a replacement starter for Matt Flynn in the 2007 SEC Championship Game, Perrilloux delivered an MVP performance that seemed to herald the highlight reels to come.

Turns out, it was the highlight. Friday, Miles announced he had dismissed Perrilloux from the team, no longer willing to tolerate the quarterback’s off-the-field entanglements and distractions in return for his glittering promise.

In a four-paragraph statement issued early Friday morning after he addressed the dismissal with the rest of the team, Miles announced Perrilloux was no longer associated with LSU football.

“Ryan was given every opportunity to be a part of this football team,” Miles said in the statement. “In the end, he didn’t fulfill his obligation as an LSU student-athlete. We hope that a new beginning will benefit him.

“I wish Ryan and his family nothing but the best in any future endeavors.”

A report on ESPN.com, which cited unnamed sources, said Perrilloux was dismissed because of a positive drug test. When asked Friday, Miles would neither confirm nor deny the report and declined further comment.

Reached at her LaPlace home Friday, Perrilloux’s mother, Bobbi Breaux, also declined comment.

Attorney Nathan Fisher declined comment on the ESPN report as well, but said he continues to represent Perrilloux in an ongoing federal counterfeiting investigation.

“The coach made his decision,” Fisher said. “It’s just unfortunate. I hope the young man can get his life together.”

Suspended three times over the past year, the most recent action involving Perrilloux was his reinstatement immediately following the LSU Spring Game on April 5.

Perrilloux accompanied the team to Washington D.C., the following week, where the Tigers were honored at the White House for winning the 2007 BCS national championship.

This time, Perrilloux’s departure from the team is definitely permanent, according to LSU Sports Information Director Michael Bonnette. Perrilloux is expected to finish out the spring semester at LSU, then transfer to another school.


Comments (24)
Duane
Saturday, May 03, 2008
1:49 AM

Les Miles made the right decision. The LSU Tiger Football Team will have much success without Perrilloux. He has been a problem "child" for the team and obviously doesn't want to grow up and make the right choices. Perrilloux has been given too many chances to get his act together. I believe the Tigers will continue to be Champions without Perrilloux since they will not have all the distractions of his criminal activity off the field and his disreguard for rules and regulations.
DRamsey
Saturday, May 03, 2008
5:41 AM

Who cares this is not a major news story; put this in the sport section. We have men and women dying overseas, the legislature in session, high gas prices, and an election and this is front page news...HOW SAD
JR
Saturday, May 03, 2008
6:53 AM

Read a national paper if you dont want local news on the front page
Brian
Saturday, May 03, 2008
7:26 AM

I know Les made the right choice. He gave this kid every chance he deserved. He is not a child that needs to be baby sitted, he's a grown man. He should know right from wrong. We have a lot of kids on this team who come from broken homes and they don't put themselves in this kind of situation. Rules are made for everone and nobody should receive special treatment just because they are good at a sport. Congratulations Les on the choice you made to dismiss Ryan. Maybe now he will look back and see what kind of future he could have had and get his life straight. Sometimes tough love is the best love. As far as for our tigers we will still be a champion without Ryan because we are a team full fo talent and not focused on just one player. Go TIGERS
Brian
Saturday, May 03, 2008
7:30 AM

I know Les made the right choice. He gave this kid every chance he deserved. He is not a child that needs to be baby sitted, he's a grown man. He should know right from wrong. We have a lot of kids on this team who come from broken homes and they don't put themselves in this kind of situation. Rules are made for everone and nobody should receive special treatment just because they are good at a sport. Congratulations Les on the choice you made to dismiss Ryan. Maybe now he will look back and see what kind of future he could have had and get his life straight. Sometimes tough love is the best love. As far as for our tigers we will still be a champion without Ryan because we are a team full fo talent and not focused on just one player. Go TIGERS
carl
Saturday, May 03, 2008
7:30 AM

This is not front page news. The kid should have been booted months ago.
Flynn
Saturday, May 03, 2008
7:45 AM

I'm so upset hearing that Ryan is gone. He's been a good friend and a player for us. I don't know what is going on with him? Maybe his dad's death is one of the reasons leading him to this. I believe he will have a good future, he's gonna be a better player, and will make it to the NFL one day. Our Tigers will win many games this years without Ryan. J. Lee and Hatch will play well for us. Always Tigers, MF
Finally!
Saturday, May 03, 2008
9:33 AM

Way to go Coach! You made the right decision. Perriloux should've been given the boot after the first time he screwed up.
C
Saturday, May 03, 2008
9:58 AM

Ryan did this to himself. People make their own decisions. He was an adult and he should know right from wrong. People need to stop making excuses for him. (family issues, family deaths, trouble with the law) He made the choices he made cause he wanted to. He had the attitude that he was above everyone else. Coach Miles made the right decision.
jjohn mulliniks
Saturday, May 03, 2008
10:08 AM

I WANT ALL TO KNOW, FOR SOME REASON IT SEEMS THAT I HAVE LOST A FRIEND, AND I DID NOT EVEN KNOW RYAN...I REALLY DID LIKE THIS KID, I HAVE BEEN PRAYING FOR HIM AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO AND ASK ALL OF YOU OUT THERE THAT ARE BELIEVERS TO PRAY FOR RYAN...I BELIEVE THAT HE IS A GOOD KID WHO HAS TEMP. LOST HIS WAY, AND WHAT DID JESUS SAY WHEN ASK ABOUT FORGIVENESS, NOT JUST SEVEN TIMES BUT SEVEN TIMES SEVENTY, IN OTHER WORDS THERE IS NO LIMIT TO HIS FORGIVENESS, I THANK GOD FOR THAT, AND WE WHO ARE ALSO SINNERS SHOULD PRAY THAT RYAN WILL JOIN THE TEAM OF JESUS CHRIST AND FINISH THE RACE, AFTER ALL IF YOU MISS THAT TEAM, YOU ARE DOOMED TO "HELL" FOREVER AND I AM PULLING FOR RYAN WITH HIS HELP TO SOMEHOW, STRAIGHTEN OUT HIS LIFE, GET BACK ON THE TEAM AND WORK FOR JESUS, YES HAVE HIM IN HIS GAME WHERE EVER HE GOES AND WHAT EVER HE DOES, RYAN, ASK JESUS INTO YOUR LIFE AND TELL HIM THAT YOU WANT HIM TO STRAIGHTEN OUT YOUR LIFE, AND THAT YOU BELIEVE IN HIM AND WILL DO YOUR BEST TO WORK AND PROCLAIM FOR EVER...YOU ARE VERY YOUNG, TURN YOUR LIFE AROUND BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, AND WHEN YOU DO, COME BACK TO YOUR FAITHFUL COACH, TELL HIM THAT YOU WANT BACK ON THE TEAM, AND WILL DO ALL THAT YOU CAN WITH THE HELP OF CHRIST YOU WILL MAKE BOTH TEAMS...I STILL BELIEVE IN YOU, YOU HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE PULLING AND PRAYING FOR YOU. fOR SOME REASON YOU SEEM TO THINK THAT YOU CAN'T MAKE IT WITHOUT MATT, YOU CAN, I WISH I COULD PUT THE TWO OF YOU TOGETHER, WHAT A QB THAT WOULD MAKE... COME ON RYAN, DO THE RIGHT THING FOR YOURSELF AND FOR YOUR MOTHER, YOU CAN DO IT, BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT NOW, YOU CAN'T WASTE ANY MORE TIME, TALK WITH MATT, HE IS YOUR FRIEND, AND WE ALL LOVE YOU AND ARE PULLING FOR YOU...MARANATHA!!! PLEASE HELP RYAN LORD, PLEASE...
craig
Saturday, May 03, 2008
10:19 AM

I'm going to collect my money. I wagered with several friends that RP would do something stupid between now and August. How sad. How dumb!
Homeboy
Saturday, May 03, 2008
10:36 AM

Will Master P offer him a recording contract?
Dan
Saturday, May 03, 2008
10:42 AM

Good riddance to this piece of trash. Constant trouble since he has been at LSU. The tigers will be much better off in the long term without him. Odds are he'll have a new residence at Angola within the next few years.
John
Saturday, May 03, 2008
1:27 PM

Ryan's troubles began a long time before he entered LSU, lets try at home. Parents may want to learn a lesson from this, perhaps his parents did try to teach him, but it simply didn't sink in! If people are constantly bailed out of bad situations they get themselves in, they learn to depend on that. On the other hand when you always have to deal with the consequences of your action, the result is to change. The saddest thing I see is people blaming the school, not only in this case but many others as well, you have got to hold people accountable, this is a life lesson. Ryan was truly blessed with talent but talent alone can only take you so far. Ryan should take a look at what has perhaps taken a multi-million dollar future from him. Face facts, not amount of education is going to pay the dollars, he would have commanded in professional sports, again this is just a sad fact of life. People make more money chasing a ball than a researcher who may find the cure for cancer. Choose your friend wisely, life will place you in spots where what's on paper about you is solely what you are judged on. A true friend gives sound advice, only a fool will reject it. Whatever reason he is no longer a member of the team, I beleive someone from the coach to the ball boy has offered sound advice, we see it was not adhered to!
wayne4lsu
Saturday, May 03, 2008
2:28 PM

I can already hear LSU's National Championship hopes being flushed down the toilet. Considering his talent, they should've cut Ryan some slack.
Mark Lawson
Saturday, May 03, 2008
2:47 PM

Well now at least LSU can move on. Sorry for Ryan's trouble and I hope he gets it together and keeps plaing somewhere, but at least it happened now and not at the beginning of the season.
Baton Rouge Bama Fan
Saturday, May 03, 2008
3:57 PM

lol at LSU fans and some of these comments. Calling a guy trash and things of that nature. A little rule you people aren't God you can't judge somebody. You've never walked in their shoes. WIth that being said I see the beginning of the end for LSU and they'll soon go back to being a guaranteed win on Bama's schedule.
no caps
Saturday, May 03, 2008
6:52 PM