Urban Meyer's wife on SEC, Florida fans: SEC is more hostile, dirty and meaner

Anyone that closely follows the sport of college football knows how rabid the SEC fan base is as a whole. College football down in the south is everything to those fans, and no one can know that better than the wife of former Florida Gators coach Urban Meyer, Shelley.

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Well, Mrs. Meyer recently had a discussion with 247 Sports, and she gave her thoughts on the differences between the SEC and where she is now in Columbus, Ohio, where her husband is the head coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes.

And the comments she made with either make SEC fans really proud, or really offended. That’s up for interpretation.

“No, I would say it’s equal,” Shelley Meyer told 247Sports. “I just didn’t know it was this rabid here. But it’s less hostile here than at Florida. I mean, the SEC as a whole is a more hostile feeling to me. I thought that ever since we went down there. It’s just meaner.

“Now, I know ‘The Team Up North’ [Michigan] versus Ohio State game is pretty mean; everybody is pretty mean when that game rolls around. It’s extremely competitive, but it’s just not as mean (as the SEC). Not as dirty and mean. I hate to say that, but that’s just how it is in the South. College football is everything down there.”

What say you, SEC fans? What do you think of the comments by Mrs. Meyer? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

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Urban Meyer’s wife on SEC, Florida fans: SEC is more hostile, dirty and meaner

By Jack Crosby | Jul 27, 2014