COLUMBUS, Ohio — The merits of Jim Harbaugh’s attention-grabbing first four months as Michigan’s head coach depends on who you talk to.
Fans of the Wolverines see a coach creating a buzz around a program in desperate need of just that. Rivals seem to see nothing more than an empty threat coming in the form of guest appearances at spring training and courtside pizza at basketball games.
But while the value of Harbaugh’s celebrity-like offseason is up for debate, this much is not: The former San Francisco 49ers head coach has owned college football Twitter for the past four months.
Or at least he did.
And perhaps fittingly, the biggest threat to Harbaugh’s 140-characters-or-less crown comes from his renewed archrival.
Cardale Jones might not be Ohio State’s starting quarterback when Harbaugh gets his first shot at the Buckeyes since taking the field as the Wolverines signal-caller in the 1986 edition of “The Game,” as Jones still has to beat out J.T. Barrett and Braxton Miller this summer in order to retain his starting status. But that hasn’t stopped Jones from basking in the limelight of the Buckeyes’ run to the national championship last season, with much of his celebrating playing out right in front of his 173,000-plus followers.
Formerly best known for one of his ill-advised tweets, Jones has become a Twitter superstar since leading his team to three consecutive postseason wins at the end of the 2014 season, specifically within the last week. It started…
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