Jim Harbaugh says Ohio State ‘fired over our bow,’ so he took a jab at the Buckeyes

Highly animated, as always. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Jim Harbaugh isn’t just wildly, idly firing off tweets that take strong jabs at Michigan’s chief rival. The Wolverines coach knew exactly what he was doing when he took a shot at Ohio State over its memorabilia-for-tattoos scandal of a few years ago. The Buckeyes, he said Saturday, started the increasingly nasty exchanges. “It felt like one got shot over our bow,” Harbaugh said (via the Detroit News) of his purpose tweet. “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, [I] thought it was time to fire one over their bow. “Consider things even right now.” [Jim Harbaugh dials Michigan-OSU rivalry up to 11. In March.] What fired up Harbaugh was a shot by Ohio State Athletic Director Gene Smith, who didn’t cotton to Michigan taking spring practice on the road to Florida…

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