Category: Jacksonville State Gamecocks
Perrilloux's Shadow Casts Over Conference
NASHVILLE — Coming out of spring football practice, Jacksonville State didn't have an established quarterback.
The Gamecocks were expecting to toss the dice with two freshmen, knowing they would likely take their lumps in a conference stacked with qu… more »
EKU Colonels Picked Second In OVC
RICHMOND — In the past few years, the Ohio Valley Conference has slowly, but steadily started to re-emerge as one of the better Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) leagues in the country.
That resurgence hasn’t resulted in playoff victories or na… more »
Jacksonville State Heads Closest Pre-Season Vote in OVC History
NASHVILLE — Eastern Kentucky finished a perfect 8-0 in the Ohio Valley Conference last season and boasts the league's 2008 pre-season offensive player of the year in quarterback Allan Holland. Despite losing coach Danny Hope to Purdue during the off-sea… more »
Jacksonville State picked to win OVC title
Jacksonville State University head football coach Jack Crowe finds himself in a familiar position at today's Ohio Valley Conference media day in Nashville - in the bull's-eye as the No.1 pick.
Crowe's Gamecocks, defending champion Eastern Kentucky an… more »
Jax State Players Fall in behind Perrilloux
JACKSONVILLE - The only thing rising higher than the mid-afternoon temperatures on the artificial turf at Paul Snow Stadium are the expectations of the Jacksonville State Gamecocks taking part in voluntary workouts with new quarterback Ryan Perrilloux.… more »
Jax State 'O' Could Have Strong SEC Feel
JACKSONVILLE — The Jacksonville State football team has a chance to have an all former Southeastern Conference backfield this fall.
The Gamecocks already have Ryan Perrilloux (LSU) pegged at quarterback and, the Star has confirmed, former Alabama cor… more »
Jacksonville State AD Jim Fuller announces retirement
JACKSONVILLE — Jim Fuller announced Sunday that he will retire at the end of August as the athletic director at Jacksonville State, ending his 17-year relationship with the University.
President William A. Meehan said Fuller met with him earlier in t… more »
Jax State's Ryan Perrilloux, In His Own Words
Jacksonville State University secured its highest-profile football recruit ever last week when quarterback Ryan Perrilloux transferred and signed with the Gamecocks. Perrilloux became available after he was kicked off the LSU team. The junior-to-be won… more »
Perrilloux is a coup for JSU
Things will be interesting in East Alabama this fall. The much-heralded and troubled Ryan Perrilloux is coming to Jacksonville State University to apparently finish out his college football career.
It is difficult for me to say what will happen at th… more »
Jax State's Crowe Sells His Soul for QB
You want to know what's wrong with sports? Let me quickly point you in the direction of Jacksonville State and its unconscionable decision to allow Ryan Perrilloux to play football this season for the Gamecocks.
One can easily understand why coach Ja… more »
Perrilloux Boosts JSU's Football Outlook
The addition of Ryan Perrilloux to Jacksonville State's football team just made everybody's job in the OVC a lot tougher.
Perrilloux, kicked off LSU's national championship team after repeated off-the-field problems, signed Wednesday with JSU.
The… more »
APSU head coach: Perrilloux Signing 'Raises The Level Of Competition' In The OVC
Perrilloux joins team that beat APSU 42-9.
The addition of former LSU quarterback Ryan Perrilloux certainly makes Jacksonville State a — if not the — favorite for the 2008 Ohio Valley Conference football championship.
"Anytime a team gets a talent… more »
Crowe "Looked Perriloux In The Eye" And Consummates Jax State "Marriage"
Sports Illustrated's Andy Staples talks to Jax State head coach Jack Crowe about his due dilligence in signing Perrilloux.
Former LSU quarterback Ryan Perrilloux didn't get the rock star treatment during his visit to Jacksonville (Ala.) State this we… more »
Ryan Perrilloux Plans To 'Do the Right Thing All the Time' at Jax State
The Ryan Perrilloux Saga took what the ex-LSU quarterback hopes will be its final turn before he heads to the NFL when he signed with Jacksonville State University on Wednesday.
Perrilloux, one of the most highly recruited quarterbacks in the nation… more »
Perrilloux Talks About Transfer To Jax State
BATON ROUGE – Ryan Perrilloux will be replacing a quarterback with more baggage than he had, and he knows his will be checked often.
Perrilloux, who was kicked off the LSU football team on May 2 after repeated disciplinary problems, faxed scholarship… more »