Jim Harbaugh is back at it again with another Twitter feud.

This time, the Michigan head coach was swift to respond to Ohio State’s athletic director Gene Smith comments in which he responded to Harbaugh’s plans to hold spring practices out-of-state in Florida telling Cleveland.com “If we were jumpstarting our program I’d probably try and do that, too. But we’re not jumpstarting our program. We’re in a different place.”

Harbaugh, offended by the “jumpstarting” aspect of the comments, took a shot at Ohio State’s NCAA violations in 2011, in which the team was handed a one-year bowl ban after the team allegedly traded memorabilia for cash and discounted tattoos.

The comments must have put Smith in his place, as he quickly apologized on Twitter, issuing the following statement.

“My comments at a soccer press conference yesterday were not meant to discredit our rival. I apologize to UM student-athletes & my good friend Warde Manuel. We at OSU look forward to continuing the greatest rivalry in collegiate football.”

Harbaugh defended his tweets, telling the Detroit News he thought long and hard before sending out the comments.

“It felt like one got shot over our bow,” said Harbaugh, who periodically uses Twitter to get his message across, sometimes directed at other coaches. “It wasn’t a knee-jerk reaction. I waited a good eight, nine hours and figured they might consider that it could be construed a certain way toward our program. Actually some of the scribes and pundits were construing it that way. So when no explanation came, thought it was time to fire one over their bow.

Harbaugh said Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel saw things “exactly the same way,” and had offered this parting message on the comments.

“Consider things even right now.”

The comments add a nice little layer to the Michigan-OSU rivalry. Something tells me the next time they meet, both teams will give a little extra to win and get bragging rights. Jim Harbaugh, you’re ice cold.

[Yahoo Sports]

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