Landon Collins and his GF speak out about his committment

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Even LSU coaches blamed her.

"There were coaches, but I'd rather not say their names because I wouldn't want that drama to come back," she said. "But there were a few coaches that decided to put out my name and say I was the reason he left and saying I was recruiting him harder than they were. And I just feel like, you just didn't do your job."

But that's only the part that Victoria knows about. Some of what was said and written about her was held onto by her mother, Annette, who played basketball at LSU and teaches and coaches at Dutchtown High, where both Collins and Victoria attended.

Annette shared a letter that was sent to the Lowery home without a return address, postmarked June 2012 from somewhere in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

An image of a printed letter was directed at "Ms Lowery." Its content is too graphic to be shown in full. The author uses several curse words, points out what he or she believes to be an improper interracial relationship and refers to Collins as a racial epithet. It says she deserves "nothing but scorn wherever you go." It's signed simply, "Concerned parents."

Annette looked into the letter and got the handwriting analyzed. She noticed that the author spelled the city incorrectly, using "Geisman" instead of Geismar. A few weeks later, she had an alarm system installed in Victoria's apartment in Tuscaloosa.

"That's not the only one we've gotten," Annette said. "We've gotten others saying that I'm a traitor to LSU. People calling my house with blocked numbers saying I'm a n-----. It was pretty bad."

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"The only reason him and I even started dating was because we knew we were going to be at Alabama together. Many people don't know that.

"He asked me to be his girlfriend and everything, and I said yes, but I didn't know where he was going. He told me it was down to LSU and Alabama, and I told him I didn't want to develop more feelings for him if we were going to be at two different schools. ... He was like, I wouldn't be dating you if I was going to LSU. And that put a big smile across my face."

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