{"id":666,"date":"2013-07-06T12:20:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T16:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=666"},"modified":"2013-07-06T12:20:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T16:20:17","slug":"urban-meyer-speaks-about-aaron-hernandez-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/07\/06\/urban-meyer-speaks-about-aaron-hernandez-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Meyer speaks about Aaron Hernandez situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_667\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-667\" style=\"width: 674px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-667\" alt=\"urbanmeyer\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/07\/urbanmeyer.jpg\" width=\"674\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/07\/urbanmeyer.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/07\/urbanmeyer-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jared Wickerham\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Florida Gators coach Urban Meyer has broken his silence in regards to Aaron Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrayers and thoughts are with the family and friends of the victim,\u201d Meyer said via text messages to the <a href=\"http:\/\/buckeyextra.dispatch.com\/content\/blogs\/blogging-the-buckeyes\/2013\/07\/buckeyes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Dispatch<\/a>. \u201cRelating or blaming these serious charges to the University of Florida, myself or our staff is wrong and irresponsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just received an email from a friend where there is an accusation of multiple failed drug tests by Hernandez covered up by University of Florida or the coaching staff. This is absolutely not true,\u201d Meyer said. \u201cHernandez was held to the same drug testing policy as every other player. . . .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was an athlete at Florida 4-7 yrs ago and there are some comments being made that are not correct. Our staff, myself and our families worked very hard to mentor and guide him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As you can read about Meyer only addressed the accusations of drug use and not of any criminal activity that Hernandez may have been a part of.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly happened during Hernandez&#8217;s time with the Gators remains a question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Florida Gators coach Urban Meyer has broken his silence in regards to Aaron Hernandez. \u201cPrayers and thoughts are with the family and friends of the victim,\u201d Meyer said via text messages to the Columbus Dispatch. \u201cRelating or blaming these serious charges to the University of Florida, myself or our staff is wrong and irresponsible.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[75],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaafb-news","tag-urban-meyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}