perrilloux in trouble again...

[jason]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3085557

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Ryan Perrilloux's off-field troubles have taken him out of LSU's quarterback rotation again, this time for at least a week.

Perrilloux and reserve linebacker Derrick Odom are being punished for their involvement in a nightclub brawl over the weekend, LSU head coach Les Miles said Monday.

They sat out practice Monday while the third-ranked Tigers prepared for a highly anticipated showdown against former coach Nick Saban at No. 17 Alabama, and Miles said he didn't expect the two to play on Saturday.

"We will prepare to play without these guys," Miles said.

That had to be good news for Saban, a defensive mastermind who apparently no longer has to concern himself with the option threat Perrilloux has posed this season when Miles has subbed him for starter Matt Flynn.

Miles said backup quarterbacks Andrew Hatch and Jarrett Lee could play Perrilloux's role.

Regardless, it's bad timing for Miles, who needs to beat Alabama (6-2, 4-1 Southeastern Conference) to give LSU (7-1, 4-1) the inside track to win the SEC West.

As for Perrilloux and Odom, missing what may be one of the biggest games of the year should be the least of their worries.

Both players' status on the team had already been threatened by troubles with the law.

Miles suspended Perrilloux from the team for three months this year after police cited the 20-year-old for using his older brother's ID card to get into a Baton Rouge casino, where the minimum age of admission is 21. Perrilloux has also been listed as a "person of interest" in a federal counterfeiting probe.

Odom was arrested in September, accused of damaging another LSU student's vehicle. Miles suspended Odom for three weeks in August, after the linebacker was arrested after allegedly damaging another student's vehicle and threatening the student.

No one was arrested in the fight early Friday near the LSU campus.

The scuffle began when Perrilloux and Odom got into a shoving match with a group of bouncers, according to a Baton Rouge police report. Brent McClellan, owner of the Varsity nightclub, said Perrilloux and Odom refused to leave at the 2 a.m. closing time, and the scuffle began when bouncers forced them outdoors, into a parking lot, according to the report.

Perrilloux and Odom gave a different account, saying the bouncers were harassing them and their girlfriends. The two players "began fighting off the bouncers in an effort to protect themselves and their girlfriends," Odom told police.

Miles sidestepped reporters' questions about the matter in his Monday news conference, instead focusing on the game coming up in Tuscaloosa.

"From this point on, if you don't mind, I want to talk about Alabama," he said.

Miles also avoided questions about the hype surrounding his matchup against Saban, who won a national championship at LSU in 2004. LSU fans continued to hold Saban in high regard after he left to coach the Miami Dolphins, but the once-beloved coach became a traitor in the eyes of many in Baton Rouge after he left the NFL to take over one of the Tigers' oldest SEC rivals.

Alabama hired him this year with a $32 million deal that made him college football's highest paid coach.

Miles said he understood fans' interest in the coaching matchup, but wasn't interested in discussing it.

"This will be a great game, but it will not be about the head coaches," Miles said. "I appreciate coach Saban's past, in passing through Louisiana, and certainly respect what he was able to accomplish here."

Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press

[DDBooger]

pitiful, this is the same idiot who said he'd get 4 heismans and make everyone forget bout VY is it not?

[Phil C]

When he signed with LSU he said UT fans would get over it. It looks like he was a prophet there.

[crzyjournalist03]

Originally posted by Phil C
When he signed with LSU he said UT fans would get over it. It looks like he was a prophet there.

:clap: :clap: :D

[18handicap]

Why was he at the Varsity anyway? I don't go there when I'm in town. Nothing but trouble.

[18handicap]

Things could change, but he still shouldn't have gotten into the fight. This was just updated at www.2theadvocate.com

BR police reopen probe into Varsity Theatre fight
By JARED JANES AND ADRIAN ANGELETTE
Advocate staff writer
Published: Oct 31, 2007 - UPDATED: 10:40 a.m.

State District Judge Todd Hernandez ruled today that attorneys for LSU football players Ryan Perrilloux and Derrick Odom should get a copy of a surveillance video showing a fight early Friday between the players and bouncers from the Varsity Theatre.

Attorney Nathan Fisher, who represents Perrilloux, said he wants to see the disc because, “I have reason to believe it will help exonerate my client.”

Asked if he wants to get Perrilloux on the field Saturday, Fisher said, “I deal with criminal cases, and coach Miles deals with the football team.”

However, Odom’s lawyer, Anthony Bertucci, said he wants to get the investigation moving so the players have a chance to play with their team when LSU faces Alabama in Tuscaloosa .

No criminal charges have been filed in the case.

The video was turned over to Baton Rouge police Monday, but they have been unable to view it because of a technical difficulty, prosecutor Aaron Brooks said.

Coach Les Miles prohibited Perrilloux, a quarterback, and Odom, a linebacker, from practicing with the team Monday.+

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Published: Oct 30, 2007

Although a Baton Rouge police report indicated an early Friday fight outside the Varsity Theatre was a closed case, police officers are now investigating new complaints stemming from the incident involving two LSU football players.

The initial report filed Friday after the fight said the case is closed with no arrests, but police spokesman Sgt. Don Kelly said Monday the case has been forwarded to follow up divisions in the department.

Two LSU football players — backup quarterback Ryan Perrilloux and reserve linebacker Derrick Odom — were suspended from the team and did not practice Monday, LSU officials said.

The No. 3-ranked Tigers could be without those players for Saturday’s game at No. 17-ranked Alabama.

“All I know,” LSU coach Les Miles said Monday, “is that both players that have been named will not practice today, Ryan Perrilloux and Derrick Odom, and we will prepare to play without these guys, but I want to get all the information before I do anything further.”

LSU spokesmen Michael Bonnette and Herb Vincent later confirmed Miles meant to indicate the Tigers would begin their practice week as if they would have to play without the two players, as a contingency plan, but Miles had yet to definitively rule them out for the game.

The Police Department has seen a “lot of interest from different sides” in the case since news broke this weekend, Kelly said. He said police are still in the early stages of their investigation.

“Our investigators are trying to sort through all of it,” Kelly said. “We’re not playing by anybody else’s timelines.

Miles said Monday third-string quarterback Andrew Hatch, a sophomore walk-on from Henderson, Nev., who transferred to LSU from Harvard, would practice as backup to starter Matt Flynn. Miles also said he would not hesitate to play Jarrett Lee, a freshman from Brenham, Texas, if needed.

Perrilloux has completed 29 of 41 passes this season for 414 yards with six touchdowns and an interception. Hatch is 1-for-2 for 9 yards. Lee has yet to play, and neither has Odom.

A police report obtained Monday provided the first official details police have released from the incident at The Varsity, 3353 Highland Road.

Police were dispatched at 2:12 a.m. to the club after receiving several telephone calls about a large fight in the rear parking lot.
Varsity employees told police bouncers were trying to clear the club when a few people — including Perrilloux and Odom — refused to leave, leading to a fight between the bouncers and the men.

The fight spilled out into the parking lot with the bouncers taking control, leading at least one of the men to threaten to go get a gun, the report said. Police arrived shortly after and began breaking up the fight.

Emergency Medical Services was not dispatched.

A woman who answered the phone Monday afternoon at The Varsity said ownership and employees would have no comment.

Police questioned Perrilloux, who is described in the report as “the most confrontational inside the bar,” after the fight.

Perrilloux told police he was with his pregnant girlfriend when they were harassed by the security staff inside the club at closing time. The bouncers started trying to push Perrilloux and his girlfriend outside the club, at one point grabbing the woman in a bear hug and “treating her like a man.”

Perrilloux became upset and began trying to fight off the bouncers to protect his girlfriend, the report said. Perrilloux and his group of friends were forced outside the club during the fight, where Perrilloux said it seemed like his group was fighting off about 50 people.

Perrilloux told police Friday morning that no one in his group had a weapon and said his group was being “mistreated because of their skin color.”

The incident left Perrilloux “beat up” and considering whether he should press charges against the bouncers, his attorney Nathan Fisher said Sunday.

Perrilloux spoke with Fisher on Monday afternoon when they discussed the police report that was just released, Fisher said. He advised Perrilloux he had filed a subpoena for surveillance video from The Varsity he said he hopes will show what happened inside and outside the club.

Regardless of what the tapes show — he expected to be in court sometime this morning to review them — he will suggest that Perrilloux not press charges against anyone.

He also said, had he known the extent of Odom’s injuries, he might have suggested Odom press charges. However, he directed further questions about Odom to Anthony Bertucci, who agreed to represent the linebacker Monday and had not reviewed the case.

The report says Odom told police he was with Perrilloux and several others when the bouncers approached them and started pushing them.

Bertucci said Perrilloux and Odom were there with a group of football players to watch defensive lineman Marlon Favorite, who was performing on the stage.

The report also mentions that, like Perrilloux, Odom became upset when the bouncers pushed his pregnant girlfriend.

However, Fisher said Odom does not have a pregnant girlfriend.

The fight left Odom with visible injuries, including a black eye, Bertucci said. Fisher said Sunday that Perrilloux did not have any visible injuries.

After the fight was broken up, the club owner told police he did not want to press charges, but wanted Perrilloux’s group off Varsity property, the report said. The officer told Perrilloux he and his friends would be arrested if they returned to the club in the future.

The officer also advised both Odom and Perrilloux that they could pursue charges at a later date by contacting the District Attorney’s Office, the report said. The officer waited until Perrilloux’s group left the scene and then left The Varsity.

He returned shortly after to a complaint from a 28-year-old woman that her 2002 Suzuki Aerio was damaged when the fight spilled into the parking lot, the report said. The officer documented the damage — a quarter panel on the driver’s side was dented — and resumed his patrol.

Perrilloux was the most-heralded recruit of Miles’ first signing class in 2005. The quarterback was rated as the nation’s No. 1 prospect by ESPN and several other recruiting services coming out of East St. John High School in LaPlace.

Perrilloux was issued a misdemeanor summons in May after trying to board a local casino riverboat by using his brother’s driver’s license, drawing a three-month suspension from the team. In January, Perrilloux’s name came up in connection with a federal counterfeiting investigation.

[RedWhiteBlue]

Originally posted by 18handicap
Why was he at the Varsity anyway? I don't go there when I'm in town. Nothing but trouble.
That was my question and I don't know the place- but is he supposed to even be there- was he using his brother's ID again??? He is a class act. He did UT a favor when he made his decision.