And I’ve just accepted that and I love when our fans are behind us and support us and I love that they love their team, but we can’t take it personally. You can’t please all fans anywhere you can’t. “They feel a betrayal, even though they were so mad at him about how our last season (2010) went,” she said. And not just because we’ve often referred to UF fans who blast Urban Meyer as “jilted lovers.” (OK, that’s exactly why.) Carry on, “Miss Shelley,” as Tim Tebow calls her… “But, here is my perception (about Florida fans): I think they feel like they were kind of left at the altar.” Now, to be fair, there’s a lot of fans across the country that are like that – and I’m sure there’s some Ohio State people that could do that, too. “But when it’s not going good or something doesn’t go the way they want, they will turn in a second. Now, when we first went down there and we were winning and we were winning those national championships, Urban was the best thing ever. “They want to be able to brag on their team. “Well, what I learned was that Florida fans, there’s a lot of them and people want to brag on their team,” Shelley Meyer said. During his six years in Gainesville, the Gators won two.īut hey, let’s kick the man who did so much for the program as he’s headed out the door. Florida had won exactly one national championship in its program’s history before Urban Meyer arrived. There is being ungrateful, and then there are Gator fans who take it exponentially past that point. Urban and Shelley Meyer at a basketball game soon after Meyer was hired in late 2011. College football is everything down there.”Ī common gripe (misconception) amongst Florida fans is that Meyer faked having a heart attack so he would have an excuse to get out of town and take his dream job at Ohio State. I hate to say that, but that’s just how it is in the South. It’s extremely competitive, but it’s just not as mean (as the SEC). “Now, I know ‘The Team Up North’ versus Ohio State game is pretty mean everybody is pretty mean when that game rolls around. I thought that ever since we went down there. I mean, the SEC as a whole is a more-hostile feeling to me. But it’s less hostile here than at Florida. “I just didn’t know it was this rabid here. Shelley was asked if Ohio State fans are even more boisterous than Florida’s from her experiences. I mean, even parts of my family – extended family – where it really didn’t come up before, well, now, especially since Urban is the head coach, everybody is all in and that is all there is.” I guess I didn’t realize exactly how rabid people are here about the football team. But after being in Gainesville (at the University of Florida), it’s very similar. We have to sit here and shut up and watch.’ He wasn’t like that. “I was an athlete in high school (basketball, track, volleyball) and my dad came and watched us, but it was never like ‘We have to watch this Ohio State game every week. “Well, I didn’t grow up as diehard of an Ohio State fan as most everybody else was who grew up here, as I’m finding out about,” Shelley Meyer told Bucknuts. However, that would be an incorrect assumption. Shelley Meyer instructs a spinning class. She had to have realized that the Buckeyes were notorious for having one of the most-passionate fan bases in the country. Shelley Meyer grew up in Ohio – just outside of Chillicothe – so one might imagine that she knew exactly what she was getting into when her husband, Urban Meyer, was hired as Ohio State’s head football coach on Nov.
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