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Mother of Clemson star RB Travis Etienne says she is receiving threats from LSU fans

The Greenville News

Donnetta Etienne, the mother of Clemson star running back Travis Etienne, said she is being inundated with disturbing talk heading into Clemson’s showdown against LSU on Jan. 13 in the College Football Playoff title game in New Orleans.

The Etiennes live in Jennings, Louisiana, a small town about 1 1/2 hours west of the LSU campus in Baton Rouge.

“We from Louisiana,” Donnetta Etienne wrote in a post on her Twitter account on Monday. “We are getting all kind of threats. Sad but true. God is in control.