Jacksonville, AL – Former Jax State quarterback Perrilloux to be inducted into the Louisiana High School Sports Hall of Fame in May
By Al Muskewitz
Before Ryan Perrilloux made his name as the quarterback who would take Jacksonville State football to the next level of success He was a multi-sport superstar in his in the state of Louisiana.
He was a star in all three important sports at the high school level, and in the spring of 2019, his achievements will be rewarded when He is inducted into the Louisiana High School Sports Hall of Fame. The two coaches that submitted letters of recommendation for him are already part of the Hall.
Perrilloux will be joining nine other Louisiana notables as part of the class 2024 to attend ceremonies on April 16 in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Baton Rouge. One of the inductees for this class will be the Dr. James Andrews, the famous sports surgeon who performed Perrilloux knee surgery. He’s also a acquaintance of JSU coach Jack Crowe, who brought Perrilloux to the Gamecocks.
“it feels great to know that you’ve done some thing, achieved something, and you didn’t realize you were doing it when you were doing this,” Perrilloux said Monday. “And it’s a great feeling to see the State be able to come back and be grateful for your work is the greatest feeling to me, all it takes is the recognition.
As a high school athlete, Perrilloux was unparalleled. He was ranked fourth on the top list of the state’s most prolific passers and was second in total yards. In the field of baseball the player hit .600 as senior. The postseason football awards was abounding and he was seen as the best recruit across the nation.
The whole thing brought him to LSU and the plan was to begin as a rookie, but troubles was soon to follow. After being dismissed in May 2008 Crowe hired him at Jax State, when the Gamecocks were desperately in require of an offensive quarterback.
Perrilloux was a two-year player with The Gamecocks (2008 as well as 2009) which was instrumental in guiding them to two of winning seasons as well as nearly a win in the midst of a torrential downpour in Florida State, but never reached the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs after helping the Tigers get to their first BCS National Championship Game his final season at LSU.
The team still has the third and second best passing-percentage games, the second-highest single-game efficiency of passing with the second-highest record of the most consecutive completions of passes. He passed for 4,668 yards during his career. He is the No. two on Gamecocks all-time list of pass efficiency with the second highest number of the number of passing yards per match, and the third-highest in terms of yards per passing.
After the departure of Jax State, he bounced between a few NFL camps as well as a handful of development leagues before putting down his cleats France and never quit football.
At 36, his many responsibilities is a catering business and serving as a roving instructor of passing for a variety of schools in Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge area and molding the next generation of catchers and passers as the director for the Perrilloux Passing Academy.
When he thinks about his journey through life and experiences, he states that coming here to Jax State was the best experience that has ever occurred to him.
“When I arrived at Jacksonville State, I learned an extremely important lesson and that was to settle down and focus on my business. Jacksonville State always made my work a bit easier for me to manage,” he explained. “I believed in the Jacksonville State team. They allowed me to unwind but they did not let me relax in the school, and certainly not in the field however they helped me calm down.
“Jacksonville State was the best destination I could have stayed in following what occurred to me. There is no better place than Jacksonville State.”
