Mouldsie
July 31st, 2004, 2:46:27 PM
CENTER OF ATTENTION
By Wayne Drehs
ESPN.com
They were just warming up, playing catch 15 yards apart, when his partner launched the ball 20 yards over Ryan Perrilloux's head. It didn't sit well.
"Watch this," said Dustin Yates, Perrilloux's assistant coach at East St. John High School outside New Orleans. "To him, everything is a pissing contest. And no matter what it is, he always pisses the furthest."
Ryan Perrilloux has the form and athleticism that made him a hot commodity at football camps this summer.
Perrilloux picked up the ball, walked 20 yards beyond where it had landed, turned back around and with the simple flick of his wrist, uncoiled a perfectly arched spiral that scorched through the Swamp as if Rex Grossman had released it himself.
Seventy-five yards later -- 20 beyond its intended target -- the ball fell back to earth, landing in the hedges just beyond the end zone.
"Dude tried to out-throw me," Perrilloux said as he walked off the field at Ron Zook Football Camp. "So I put one over his head. Then he quit.
"I hate when they quit like that. Quitter."
This was the reason he was here. This is the reason he was attended similar camps at Texas, LSU and Florida State. To prove that he is the best high school quarterback in the nation. To help him figure out where he wanted to play college football.
By Wayne Drehs
ESPN.com
They were just warming up, playing catch 15 yards apart, when his partner launched the ball 20 yards over Ryan Perrilloux's head. It didn't sit well.
"Watch this," said Dustin Yates, Perrilloux's assistant coach at East St. John High School outside New Orleans. "To him, everything is a pissing contest. And no matter what it is, he always pisses the furthest."
Ryan Perrilloux has the form and athleticism that made him a hot commodity at football camps this summer.
Perrilloux picked up the ball, walked 20 yards beyond where it had landed, turned back around and with the simple flick of his wrist, uncoiled a perfectly arched spiral that scorched through the Swamp as if Rex Grossman had released it himself.
Seventy-five yards later -- 20 beyond its intended target -- the ball fell back to earth, landing in the hedges just beyond the end zone.
"Dude tried to out-throw me," Perrilloux said as he walked off the field at Ron Zook Football Camp. "So I put one over his head. Then he quit.
"I hate when they quit like that. Quitter."
This was the reason he was here. This is the reason he was attended similar camps at Texas, LSU and Florida State. To prove that he is the best high school quarterback in the nation. To help him figure out where he wanted to play college football.