Uh-oh. Please tell me this is not so. The Clarion-Ledger reports this morning that Coach Comegy at Jackson State is interested in getting former LSU QB Ryan Perilloux on his football team. This is a bad idea for several reasons. Ryan Perilloux is a thug. Period. http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080508/SPORTS030101/805080374/1287/SPORTS&referrer=NEWSFRONTCAROUSEL
Let's review his history since he became a member of the LSU football team. He was hauled into a federal counterfeit investigation that involved a close family member. Shortly afterwards, he was arrested for trying to enter a Baton Rouge Casino with his older brother's ID. Later in the summer, he was involved in an incident with Derek Odom (former Calloway star who was later kicked off the football team and charged with a crime after the incident at the Varsity, which will be discussed later in this post) where Derek Odom had an argument with some guys at an apartment complex, left, and returned with several players, including Perilloux. Odom damaged the victim's car, threatened his 50-year-old father, and knocked down the door to his apartment.
Then there is the incident at the Varsity which resulted in Perilloux's suspension for the Alabama game. According to the police report, a concert was over and it was closing time at the club. The lights were on and Perilloux and his party were asked to leave. They refused and got into a fight with the bouncers. There was an incident later where Perilloux was accused of returning with a handgun looking for the bouncers involved in the incident. The information from the police report is posted below. The couple involved dropped the charges after um, numerous meetings were held between the Varsity, LSU, and Perilloux's lawyer. It should also be noted that one of the bouncers involved was Mickey Loomis's son. Mickey Loomis, General Manager of the Saints (From what I understand, Perilloux is going to be blackballed in the NFL as Loomis's vehicle was trashed by this crew. Comegy might want to think twice about angering a prominent NFL GM, if you get my drift.). Then Perilloux was in trouble again this year, missing practices and team meetings. He was finally kicked off the team last week because he supposedly (this is a rumor that several credible sources have told me is true) flunked a drug test and the drug was cocaine.
This is what Comegy wants to bring to his team. Perilloux is not some ghetto street thug who doesn't know right from wrong. He grew up in a stable home with two good parents. His mom is a nurse and his dad (recently deceased) was a plant operator. His family was a regular middle class family. He is to put it simply, a bad kid.
If Comegy wants to endanger his team, that is his choice, but Perilloux will be a cancer and I predict JSU supporters will rue the day they signed Ryan Perilloux. Unfortunately, the "win at all costs" theme is already apparent in comments made by JSU fans. I can hear it now, he's a thug but he is OUR thug. Um, yeah.
Here is the text of the third and fourth police reports from the Varsity incident last November:
ON 10-26-07 I WAS WORKING EXTRA DUTY AT THE CHIMES, HIGHLAND RD, WHEN I WAS APPROACHED BY THE MANAGER OFTHE VARSITY ON HIGHLAND. HE WAS ADVISING ME OF THEINCIDENT THAT HAD OCCURRED EARLIER THAT MORNING ANDTHAT AN EMPLOYEE WISHED TO PRESS CHARGES. I THEN SPOKE TO COMPL.(********) WHO ADVISED THAT HE WAS LEAVING THE VARSITY AND WALKING TO THE CORNER OF HIGHLAND AT CHIMES WHERE HIS GIRLFRIEND(*****) WAS.
COMPL ADVISED THAT UPON GETTING TO THE CORNER THAT SUSPECT(PERRILLOUX) APPROACHED HIM WITH A GUN POINTEDAT HIM AND STATED "ARE YOU ONE OF THE BOYS THAT JUMPED ON ME?". COMPL(********) STATED HE PUT HIS HANDS UP AND STARTED SAYING THAT HE WASN'T AND HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE INCIDENT. COMPL(*********) ADVISED HE GRABBED HIS GIRLFRIEND(*****) BY THE ARM AND TOOK OFF RUNNING DOWN CHIMES TO GET AWAY. COMPL(********)ADVISED THAT PERRILLOUX WAS CARRYING A BLACK AND SILVER SEMI AUTO PISTOL.
AFTER SPEAKING TO COMPL(********), I CONTACTED DISPATCHER AND GOT A FILE# FOR THE INCIDENT. I ALSO CONTACTED LSU POLICE TO TRY TO OBTAIN A LOCAL ADDRESS FOR PERRILLOUX. I ALSO WAS GIVEN FOUR(4) WRITTEN STATEMENTS FROM MANAGEMENT FROM EMPLOYEES THAT WERE NOT PRESENT AT THIS TIME. I LATER PLACED STATEMENTS INTO EVIDENCE AT 2ND DISTRICT.
IN ONE OF THE STATEMENTS IT WAS SAID THAT AFTER PULLING A GUN ON COMPL(********) THAT PERRILLOUX GAVE THE GUN TO A B/M(KNOWN AS ODOM) WHO THEN PASSED THE GUN TO A UNKNOWN PERSON IN A PASSING TRUCK.
I WAS ALSO ADVISED LATER IN THE NIGHT BY SEVERAL EMPLOYEES OF THE VARSITY THAT AND EMPLOYEE RAN IN TELLING EVERYONE TO LOCK THE DOORS THAT THEY WERE COMING. THE EMPLOYEES ADVISED THEY LOCKED ALL THE DOORS AT WHICH TIME ODOM AND THREE(3) OTHER PERSONS,WEARING SHIRTS AND RAGS OVER THEIR FACES, RETURNED TO THE VARSITY PULLING ON DOORS. EMPLOYEES ADVISED THAT UPON ODEM NOT BEING ABLE TO GET IN, HE SMASHED OUT A WINDOW OF A EMPLOYEES CAR (Kingfish note, this is supposedly Loomis's car). I WAS ADVISED THAT THERE WAS VIDEO OF THIS INCIDENT BUT IT WAS NOT COLLECTED BY MYSELF DUE TO NO CHARGES BEING FILED BY THE VICTIM ON THIS INCIDENT.
Coach Comegy: "To land a guy like that, you can't go wrong."
Note: From LSU Daily Reveille:
http://media.www.lsureveille.com/media/storage/paper868/news/2008/05/02/CampusBeat/Teammate.Confirms.Perrilloux.Failed.Drug.Test.52-3362652.shtml
"Former LSU quarterback Ryan Perrilloux's college career, which has seen more time linked to disciplinary issues than playing time, came to an end Friday morning when he was dismissed from the team for failing a drug test, a team member told The Daily Reveille.The team member also said players were not told what drug resulted in the failed test..."
Thursday, May 8, 2008
He's a thug but he's OUR thug!!! Let the Ryan Perilloux circus begin!
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Comegy plans to give Periloux a copy of the JFP to get his head on straight. Periloux is just misunderstood.
Frank Melton has volunteered to mentor him.
Kingfish, I am a 100% Alabama fan (ROLL TIDE!) and I have mercilessly teased my LSU friends about this. But I gotta say: the kid ain’t a “thug,” he’s a KID, and I think he’s done nothing more than kid junk.
You call him a “thug”—a “a cutthroat or ruffian; a hoodlum.” Let’s look at your examples, though:
1. He was hauled into a federal counterfeit investigation that involved a close family member.
He wasn’t the focus, and no charges filed. Also: not violent. Also: shouldn’t hang a guy with family rope, or we’d ALL be at that swingin’ party.
2. Shortly afterwards, he was arrested for trying to enter a Baton Rouge Casino with his older brother's ID.
OMG VIOLENT CRIME oh wait, every kid in the South does this.
3. Later in the summer, he was involved in an incident with Derek Odom . . .
Wait, you’re saying he backed up a friend who was going to get in a fight? Is that thuggery, or loyalty? And—again, you hang him by Odom’s rope.
4. Varsity hijinx.
I truly celebrated this, because I hoped that Matt Flynn would not have the depth to play the whole game against a Rising Tide. (I was wrong, but . . . OH, so close!). I also think he should have been suspended from the game from fighting. But again, kid stuff, frankly. I’ve gotten thrown out of more bars than Ryan Perilloux, I suspect.
(Although I can’t imagine getting thrown out of the Varsity—it doesn’t seem like a “bar” to me, more like a nice restaurant that you can take the kids to.)
5. Then Perilloux was in trouble again this year, missing practices and team meetings.
You omit the reason why. The kid’s dad died this year, and if that doesn’t given an excuse for being erratic, ain’t nothing valid.
6. He was finally kicked off the team last week because he supposedly (this is a rumor that several credible sources have told me is true) flunked a drug test and the drug was cocaine.
BULL. Rumors are rumors. If he was kicked for a drug test, that’s completely valid. But it’s a rumor. And again—a college kid using coke? OMG SHOCKER.
I hope this leaves LSU in the lurch even more than the loss of the mighty mite, Jacob Hester (along with D-Mac my favorite SEC players of last year) and JaMarcus last year, and . . . well, they’re in the lurch. But I say don’t blame this kid for standard kid crap.
And I think it's just too damning to say "he's a bad kid." If you listed out all the stuff I did when I was his age, you'd say that, too. But I don't think I was a bad kid--but I had a bad temper and was a screw-up.
Frankly, if he can make the struggling JSU a little sturdier, I say bring him on. I hope he matures and becomes the star he could by virtue of his talent. More damning then all his skirmishes with the law is the fact that he just hasn't performed to his level of talent. I don't mind kid stuff, but I can't abide lazy.
Gorjus:
You make some good points. The counterfeit deal involved a family member and he was found not to be a perpetrator of the crime. Sneaking into the casino didn't bother me. We've all done that.
The incident with Odom. THAT is a major problem. He was not backing up his padnah. Odom left and came back hours later with several friends that were players and Xavier Carter, who is no longer on the team but is still a cancer and has been involved in this incident and a later one with Odom. RP was already in trouble and had just gotten off probation for the casino incident. Then he did that. Something should clicked inside his head that said, "dude, you are already in the doghouse, stay home. Other friends are going". But he didn't.
The Varsity. The info I posted came from the third and fourth police reports. IT was emailed to me before they were released to the public. The Advocate published them and they were identical to the information I received so this has been corroborated. I think he should have been kicked off then. I knew some of the people involved so I got some of the scoop. Loomis's son quit working at the Varsity the next week or so. Decided he didn't need this crap and they don't need the money. Couple decided not to press charges. Read between the lines on that one.
As for the drugs, I'm just going to say sources right now. And I did say that they were rumors.
As for missing practices earlier this year, you are correct about his father and that in and of itself is no reason to kick him off the team and Miles DID reinstate him back to the team after that episode.
However, you add all these up together and sorry, JSU doesn't need him. Not at all.
From Scott McKay's blog:
Perrilloux apparently flunked a drug test according to teammates willing to talk to the Daily Reveille on Friday, and that was it for Miles
From the LSU paper:
Former LSU quarterback Ryan Perrilloux's college career, which has seen more time linked to disciplinary issues than playing time, came to an end Friday morning when he was dismissed from the team for failing a drug test, a team member told The Daily Reveille.
The team member also said players were not told what drug resulted in the failed test.
LSU coach Les Miles announced Perrilloux's dismissal in a news release.
"Ryan was given every opportunity to be a part of this football team," Miles said. "In the end, he didn't fulfill his obligation as an LSU student-athlete. We hope that a new beginning will benefit him."
Miles said he would not comment further on the matter. LSU Athletic Director Skip Bertman also declined to comment.
"I wish Ryan and his family nothing but the best in any of his future endeavors."
Perrilloux's high school coach, East St. John's Larry Dauterive, said he was "devastated" to hear the news early this morning.
"I was kind of blindsided by this this morning," Dauterive said. "I don't know what was the straw that broke the camel or what put Les over the hump."
Dauterive said he has not had a chance to talk to Miles yet, although they have tried to contact one another but that he respects Miles' decision.
"I'm Les Miles' biggest fan," Dauterive said. "The last thing that a head coach wants to do is kick his starting quarterback off the team. It's a devastating blow to him - for the time he spent with the guy, a guy he maybe thought was going to help get his team back to Miami this year. But that's not going to happen now."
Dauterive said he had not heard anything about Perrilloux failing a drug test other than the questions he has been asked by media, but he hopes the stories are not true.
"I'm hoping that they put him off strictly for missing class or another weight workout," Dauterive said. "The last thing is I want for him to have done is to fail a drug test."
The news comes a day after USA Today reported Miles praising Perrilloux's recent behavior.
"I think Ryan's handling his business and doing the right things," Miles told USA Today.
Perrilloux is expected to finish out the spring semester at LSU.
I am just now checking back in (I've been busy), and I have to say that I do agree completely that he needed to be kicked from LSU. After reading through the Varsity incident, that is MORE than enough to have warranted some disciplinary action.
I just don't understand why such a talented kid--as you note, from a good background--would just wander down such an path. I hate it for him, but in the end I'm not sure he is good for any other team. Coach Comegy may be thinking stats, but stats ain't worth the headache, or the problems integrating a "foreign" SEC player into a new team can cause.
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