1-on-1 with Shelley Meyer: SEC Coaches, AH and Leaving UF

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"In the SEC I did not get to know the wives very well and there's a reason for that," Shelley told AL.com this week. "The coaches aren't good friends either mostly, because it's so competitive. They're really standoffish with each other. It's almost like, 'I can't get too close because they might steal my ideas or something.'

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"We have said publically, we do not like the way it ended at Florida," Shelley said. "Hate it. Hate that it had to go that way, but there was a crisis going on. Well, he thought it was a crisis and it put him into a crisis because it ended up not being a heart issue.

"We can't go back and change that now, but he didn't lie about anything. People think he lied. He did not lie about anything," she added. "Urban doesn't lie."

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"I didn't want him to go back," Shelley said. "I didn't think he would go back. I thought the year off was great, what he did. But once he felt healthy again and got himself right, and did some work on himself, he just realized he missed it too much."

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"Aaron Hernandez was not a murderer at Florida," she said. "There was a lot going on in his life that led to that and it certainly wasn't anything that we saw at Florida. He was another player, he was a great player, and he was somebody that was very needy, so we did a lot of things with him.

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