Perrilloux dismissed from LSU's football team
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2 AM CDT on Friday, May 2, 2008
The Associated Press
BATON ROUGE -- LSU quarterback Ryan Perrilloux, who spent as much time in his coach's doghouse as calling signals for the BCS national champions, was kicked off the team Friday by head coach Les Miles.
Alex Brandon / Associated Press
Ryan Perrilloux
In an early-morning statement issued by the university, Miles said Perrilloux "didn't fulfill his obligation as an LSU student-athlete."
"Ryan was given every opportunity to be a part of this football team," Miles said.
The university said Miles would have no additional comment.
Perrilloux, a backup to Matt Flynn, had several brushes with the law and team discipline at LSU. He was on the fringe of a counterfeiting investigation and was caught trying to enter a Baton Rouge casino with a false identification. That got him suspended from the team last summer.
He also was involved in a fracas at a nightclub in November, but he was cleared of wrongdoing.
Miles suspended Perrilloux again in mid-February after he missed a team meeting, skipped some classes and was late for a handful of conditioning workouts. Perrilloux had to meet academic requirements and do extra conditioning work before he was reinstated April 6, in time to go with the national championship Tigers to meet President Bush at the White House.
Perrilloux was not allowed to play in LSU's spring game.
Before his last reinstatement, Miles said Perrilloux had been doing better with his classwork. During the spring, redshirt freshman Jarrett Lee and junior Andrew Hatch split time as the quarterback of the Tigers.
In 12 games last season, Perrilloux completed 51 of 75 passes for eight touchdowns and two interceptions.
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