Perrilloux signs with a Div II school in Alabama that plays Georgia Tech next season

Re: Perrilloux signs with a Div II school in Alabama that plays Georgia Tech next sea

back to the topic.....

i was disappointed by what i read. even putting aside the whole ocd thing, it seemed like a lot of excuses.

him sayng "i kinda missed english classes". or that he tested positive for "trace amounts" of a banned substance. banned is banned.

i hope rp can mature, but the excuses attitude by a lot of people left a lot to be desired to me.

 

RP opens up in new article

A pretty in depth article by rivals.com

http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=809722

 

Re: Perrilloux signs with a Div II school in Alabama that plays Georgia Tech next sea

*plays eric clapton - cocaine*

 

Perrilloux Interview in Ala. Paper

Rivals.com College Football - Still scrambling, Perrilloux opens up

 

Re: Perrilloux Interview in Ala. Paper

"he has no ill will and that Miles has helped him get situated at Jacksonville State after the two agreed Perrilloux should leave Louisiana. "He really wanted it to work, and I really appreciate him for that," Perrilloux said. "I just couldn't get it right. I don't know why. I just couldn't. But I've learned from this."

 

Re: Perrilloux Interview in Ala. Paper

I thought the better quote from that rivals article was this:

"I had developed so much history from my freshman year, constantly not doing right things, constantly not being that right person. It took me to be dismissed from LSU to realize I have to be a person that does the right things all of the time."

I personally think it is unfair that RP had to be dealt such a serious blow for the stuff he did as an LSU student (which the rivals article did a good job explaining), when I've gotten to know many LSU students who have done all the same things he did, and still graduated from LSU, went out in the real world (some getting masters and/or doctorates first), and are all very successful white collar people -- literally, of the several dozen LSU students I've gotten to know that did all the stuff RP did (and I mean everything), all of them are successful white collar people today that make the Republican party proud... but sure, of those several dozen people, one ended up in federal prison before he graduated LSU, and one ended up having to join the military before he graduated LSU (although he finished his degree in the military and went on to go to get his doctorate after leaving the military) -- and both of those two were from upper middle class to very wealthy families. And sure, of all these people I'm taking about, they were all white, and all from families that were at least middle class.

Granted, I've also met plenty of LSU students who were perfect angel boyscout types, and they all turned out to be successful as well. But to say just because these people did that as LSU students, that everybody should be able to do it as an LSU student, is a pretty strict philosophy.

Anyway, the point is, if the lives of those several dozen LSU students I know that did the same stuff RP did had to face the media scrutiny that RP did, they would have been kicked out of LSU just like RP was kicked off the LSU team. But being that they got to do everything RP did, and still stay at LSU, still became successful white collar upper middle class to very wealthy Americans, while RP has to get kicked off the LSU team... to me, that's not fair.

To me, RP has to learn the reality that his life is not going to be fair, he can't get away with stuff that normal people can, he has to realize that he has to be "a person that does the right things all the time," he has to come across like a boyscout, an angel. Otherwise, the media is going to have a field day with him, and every sheltered person out there that never got to experience the life that other people got to experience is going to jump on that media bandwagon trashing RP for not being morally perfect.

 

Re: RP opens up in new article

As discussed here on a recent thread, Pete Fiutak of College Football News wrote a recent feature on the LSU football team that was pretty impressive when it came to how much he has researched us.

Regarding the RP situation, I like how he wrote that:

But I agree with him when he wrote, in another article, that:

To me, even though I don't agree with the expectation of football players to be morally perfect, I do agree that, should RP been a mega-superstar QB at LSU, the face of the franchise, it would not have been good for LSU as a whole because of all the negative attention RP got for all the stuff he did at LSU in the past (even if he never got in any trouble at all during his last two seasons at LSU).... it's bad enough that we had already had Nick "I am not leaving the Miami Dolphins" Saban associated with LSU, we don't need to make it worse.

 

Re: Perrilloux Interview in Ala. Paper

Why? Nobody else is, including Perrilloux himself.

Nice subtle suggestion that RP is a victim of racism. Completely inaccurate, but very clever.

Several dozen kids you don't know, manage to accomplish that very thing every year at LSU. They are called student-athletes. Perhaps you have heard of them?

Maybe you should enlist the help of Rev. Sharpton. It sounds like "The Man" is really getting away with something here.

Normal people don't get a free education, fame, and offered millions of $$ at age 22, in some cases, guaranteed without any further performance. The pity party stops there.

This is one of the more ignorant things claimed in this whole saga. Athletes are rarely considered or expected to be boyscouts. However, everybody knows, once you bring negative attention upon yourself, you have to make a better effort to stay out of trouble because you have brought focus upon yourself.

If you get fat, you have to diet in order to get where you were before you got fat. It's no different with Perrilloux. He was allowed to get away with plenty. Plenty more than anyone else, and it was never enough for him. His arrogance or ignorance got him kicked off this team. He will learn or he will fail where he is today. Eventually the world will tire of him and he would do himself a favor to learn that lesson right now.

Unfortunately, I imagine you will continue to whine about how unfairly he was treated for many years. It never seems to get old to you. Even after Perrilloux himself lays no blame at the feet of LSU.