...on a lark, I just looked up Ryan Perrilloux's stats at Jax State. He's rushed for around 370 yds and 7 TDs, and thrown for about 2300 yds (63% completion pct.) w/ 19 TDs and 13 INTs. Jax State is 8-3 w/ him as the QB. Good numbers? Yes. But at the 1AA level (yes, I still call it that), they're hardly earth-shaking. My point in all this? As inconsistent as Jarrett Lee has been this year, we wouldn't have necessarily been a whole lot better off if RP had managed to keep his nose clean and stick around. And it's highly likely that Lee is only going to get better.
I'm a Lee supporter, but you really can't make much of some of RP's numbers at 1-AA. Not on here, but I was calling for him to be gone in February amongst my circle of friends. However, he doesn't have the same talent playing around him that he would have here and we don't know the circumstances in which his interceptions and TD's were thrown. So to compare those numbers doesn't help. What if he was throwing Int's in crucial times of games and TD's in mop up time. I just don't think pure stats is a good measure of how things might or might not of turned out. I don't think we will ever know how we might have ended up if he were still here. Players might have played differently, we would have had different game plans on offense and possibly defense and other teams would have schemed and game planned differently for an offense led by him. Just too many variables to know if we would be in a better or worse situation.
5 of his 12 interceptions came in one game. One sportswriter says he has turned JSU into a "touchdown machine": Ryan Perrilloux turns JSU offense into TD machine Tuesday, November 11, 2008 ...... Perrilloux, who has been the Ohio Valley Conference's offensive player or newcomer of the week seven times thus far, has completed 63 percent of his passes. He's thrown for 19 touchdowns - three shy of the team's all-time record - and has already set a new standard for touchdown responsibility with 26. He has thrown for 2,199 yards, the most for a Gamecock since Montressa Kirby's 2,271 in 1998. Perrilloux sits in fourth place in single-season passing yards behind Kirby's 2,817 in 1997 and Ed Lett's 2,484 in 1982. Kirby is No.1 and 2 in total offense numbers for a season at 2,954 and 2,581, but Perrilloux is almost certain to move into second place when he adds to his 2,517 yards on Saturday. The 6-foot-3, 226-pound Perrilloux, who had started just two games at LSU, has six 200-yard passing games this year and threw for 304 at Eastern Kentucky. He also had his worst day at EKU by throwing five of his 12 interceptions. ... Ryan is involved in our game planning," Crowe said, pointing out that the Gamecocks have lost games by one point and by two despite scoring 30 points in both games. "(The coaches) ask for his input while we're still in the planning phase. That's a pretty mature development in the system, right there." Crowe said Perrilloux inspires confidence from his teammates and gives the Gamecocks a shot to score from anywhere and come from behind at any time. "He raises the level of play of every one of his teammates," Crowe said. "We have had 12 different players score touchdowns." http://www.al.com/sports/birmingham...sports/1226394977270460.xml&coll=2&thispage=2 J-Lee needs experience something RP would have began our season with. Miles did the right thing but RP's absence set the team back two years at the quarterback position, IMHO.
I am happy for RP and wish him success. It would have been nice for him to have it here, but this was not the environment that he needed in order to thrive. Maybe getting a little way from home has meant that much. LSU will survive losing him, and is now offering the same opportunity to other young men. In the end, he will be a footnote, and he will probably look back and wish he could have made it work here.
I'm not saying we wouldn't have had a better chance because of the experience and talent he brings. I'm not saying the guy isn't talented. And yes I know that he set the QB position back a couple of years. I was making apoint that looking at pure stats doesn't always tell the story and that there are too many variables of how things would have been different to say with condfidence that we would have a better or worse record at this point in the season. Only thing it changes for sure is each of our QB's current stats, and the fact that there isn't an RP thread on here and every one of our oppenents boards discussing if he would play and/or his latest story in the media. The guy essentially said the only way he was going to get his act together was for Miles to do exactly what he did.
I think Les really saved/helped RP by booting him. I think RP finally realizes what type of a chance he has. Hopefully he stops screwing up and makes something of himself.
I realize that it's apples and oranges, but just for fun: Perrilloux (through 11 games) Passes completed: 187 Passes attempted: 297 Completion Percentage: 63% Yards: 2,318 Yards per attempt: 7.81 Long: 66 yards Touchdowns: 19 Interceptions: 13 Sacked: 23 times Rush attempts: 117 Yards: 368 Yards per carry: 3.15 Long: 35 Touchdowns: 7 Fumbles: 0 Total yards: 2,686 Total touchdowns: 26 Total turnovers: 13 LSU Quarterbacks combined (through 10 games) Passes completed: 165 Passes attempted: 309 Completion Percentage: 54.09% Yards: 2,111 Yards per attempt: 6.83 Long: 66 yards Touchdowns: 16 Interceptions: 16 Sacked: 13 times Rush attempts: 55 Yards: 75 Yards per carry: 1.4 Long: 20 Touchdowns: 3 Fumbles: 0 Total yards: 2,186 Total touchdowns: 19 Total turnovers: 16 Before anyone jumps to any conclusions: I'm not trying to prove any point. Jacksonville State definitely does not play against the level of competition that LSU does.
