Maurice Smith: Alabama threw my belongings in trash after transfer decision

Things between Maurice Smith and Alabama are getting messy.

The defensive back is hoping to join Georgia as a graduate transfer, but the Crimson Tide are blocking the move to an SEC school. In a letter to Alabama's appeal committee stating his case, Smith said his personal belongings were taken from his locker and thrown in the trash after he decided to transfer.

"On Friday, June 17, I arrived at the athletic facility locker room to find my locker cleaned out and all of my personal belongings in the trash ... underneath trash," Maurice Smith wrote in the letter, obtained by Seth Emerson of DawgNation. "These personal items included my family photos, written goals, inspirational and sentimental items memorializing my deceased former friend, roommate and teammate, Altee Tenpenny, and items of personal value from my former teammates."

Smith added that shortly afterward, he was no longer permitted to use the athletic facility.

Wide receiver Chris Black left the Crimson Tide for Missouri earlier this year, also an SEC school, but the Bulldogs are now coached by Kirby Smart, Alabama's former defensive coordinator.

Smith, who posted 15 tackles and a sack last season, will be eligible to play immediately wherever he ends up as a graduate transfer.