We’re knee-deep -- or higher -- into the college football offseason, so of course we have a Twitter beef to bide our time until real football begins again.
Brandon Jacobs was a running back who played his college football at FCS Southern Illinois and went on to spend nine mostly productive years at the NFL level, including one season with the San Francisco 49ers. That one season in the Bay Area wasn’t remembered fondly by Jacobs, though, who used a radio interview this past week to (again) absolutely rip into his head football coach at the time -- current Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh.
“I had a lot of respect for Jim when I was there, before I got to know him,” a transcription from mlive.com began.
“Let’s be real. They had great assistant coaches, but Jim didn’t know what he was doing. Jim had no idea. ... That guy knew nothing, man.”
Not being one to shy away from such a damning public evisceration, Harbaugh got Twitter Biblical in addressing his former player’s public admonition...Biblical advice for @gatorboyrb Let all bitterness & wrath & anger & clamor & slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) May 27, 2017
... with his former player responding by threatening to expose Harbaugh in such a manner that it will end in his dismissal...
Love the support but stop the super bowl talk. I will expose him, Michigan will fire him when I am done.
— Brandon Jacobs (@gatorboyrb) May 27, 2017
The fact that Jacobs isn’t exactly a fan of Harbaugh doesn’t come as a huge surprise, with the player referring to his former coach as a “bitch” multiple times, as well as a loser, during a radio interview more than three years ago.
“He is a bitch, and that’s why he’s never won anything,” Jacobs said. “It is what it is. I’ve got two rings. Harbaugh, though, he’s a bitch. So it doesn’t matter.”
In exactly 97 days, Michigan will open the 2017 college football season against Florida. Whether the Wolverines open the season with Harbaugh at the helm will apparently depend on how much exposing from five years ago Jacobs plans on doing. Or Jacobs’ lingering and ongoing bitterness won’t make a spit bit of difference. One of the two.