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Jim Rome Calls Harbaugh 'Miserable,' Coach Claps Back With Twitter Threat

DETROIT (CBS Detroit) A week of media misery is in full swing for the University of Michigan's Jim Harbaugh, and the football season hasn't even started yet.

CBS Sports Radio host Jim Rome, on his podcast, said Harbaugh is just as "miserable" as he was in San Francisco. He said it in response to Harbaugh getting testy with the media when reporters tried to question him about why two freshmen were suspended. Harbaugh refused to answer, complaining angrily that reporters are "never satisfied."

That display set off Rome, who said it was a jerk move, adding, "If anybody thought this was going to be a kinder, gentler Harbaugh since he went home to Ann Arbor to rescue the football program, make no mistake, it's the same exact guy ... Nothing's changed. Same guy. Same insanely intense dude that got run from Frisco, because he was miserable. He runs way too hot and he was wearing people out. Don't get it twisted now.

"Great coach. Unbelievable coach. I'm sure he'll do a great job there. But when you have a coach who wins as he wins and nobody is ever sorry to see him leave, that tells you a little something about that guy."

Harbaugh clapped back on Twitter, basically threatening to punch the radio host. His Tweet included a video of an enraged Jim Everett pushing aside a table and attacking Rome for repeatedly referring to him as "Chris Everett," the female tennis player.

"If you call me Chris Everett to my face one more time, you'd better ... you'd better take a station break," Jim Everett said, shaking his finger in Rome's face. Rome does it again, and Everett attacks.

That didn't exactly disprove Rome's premise.

But how about this theory? Harbaugh won't finish his career at Michigan, Rome said.

"So with that 10-win season in the rear view, God help anybody who asks him who his starting quarterback is going to be," Rome said. "Or how come he can't beat Urban Meyer, or when he's going to beat Urban Meyer, or why he pulled a scholarship from a recruit. Good luck with any of that.

"Michigan fan will love this guy for winning. They'll love him even more if he gets around to beating Michigan State, and even more than that, if he can finally find a way to get over Ohio State. But anybody who thinks Harbaugh is wired to grow old in that job is kidding themselves. Enjoy it while it lasts, because even though it's his alma mater, it probably won't. This cat runs way too hot. If he can't get through an August press session, media session, when they're asking him about guys that are not in a team photo, this guy's not going to last long."

And then Rome wrote this.

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