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Mark Dantonio responds to Jim Harbaugh’s tweet

Dustin Schutte

By Dustin Schutte

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We still have 10 months until Michigan and Michigan State take the field, but the offseason shots have already been fired.

On Sunday, Mark Dantonio made a comment about Michigan State’s snub from the Outback Bowl — which decided to take Michigan instead of the Spartans. When asked about it, Dantonio said “The record are what they are. I’ll just continue to focus on beating Michigan.”

That statement did not sit well with Jim Harbaugh.

Monday afternoon, after Harbaugh caught wind of that comment, he fired off a tweet blasting Dantonio. Actually, Harbaugh “congratulated” the head coach on turning around a program that finished 3-9 a season ago and was hurt by off the field issues.

That tweet seems to be a little harsh from Harbaugh, but there were plenty of Wolverines who loved every word of it.

Dantonio didn’t appear to be bothered by those words, but he did respond to the statement with a tweet of his own, quoting himself from 2007:

Dantonio made that same statement a decade ago when Michigan running back Mike Hart kept referring to Michigan State as “little brother.” The Spartans are 8-2 in the rivalry since then.

Michigan State owns a 2-1 record over Michigan since Harbaugh arrived in Ann Arbor, including a 14-10 win earlier this year.

Dustin Schutte

Dustin grew up in the heart of Big Ten country and has been in sports media since 2010. He has been covering Big Ten football since 2014. You can follow him on Twitter: @SchutteCFB