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Jim Harbaugh, Nick Saban continue verbal jousts

By The Sports Xchange
Nick Saban, head football coach of the University of Alabama, speaks alongside President Barack Obama during an event where Obama honored the 2015- 2016 College Football Playoff National Champion Alabama Crimson Tide, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 2, 2016. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
Nick Saban, head football coach of the University of Alabama, speaks alongside President Barack Obama during an event where Obama honored the 2015- 2016 College Football Playoff National Champion Alabama Crimson Tide, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 2, 2016. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

The back-and-forth between Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh and Alabama coach Nick Saban over satellite camps continued with Harbaugh chiming in again.

On Monday, Harbaugh tweeted, "Amazing" to me- Alabama broke NCAA rules & now their HC is lecturing us on the possibility of rules being broken at camps. Truly "amazing."

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Harbaugh was asked about that tweet on Thursday while attending the Next Level Elite Football Camp in Atlanta and didn't back down after Saban called satellite camps "bad for college football" and said he doesn't pay attention to Harbaugh's comments.

"The issue was what I said it was," Harbaugh said. "Somebody that had just recently broken rules and has that in their history is lecturing us coaches -- us other coaches -- about potentially violating rules. I just thought it was hypocritical. I thought it was a hypocritical act."

A day earlier at the Southeastern Conference meetings in Florida, Saban said he wasn't bothered personally by what Harbaugh said about him but that he also won't back off his position on satellite camps.

"That's his business. I don't really care what he thinks or tweets," Saban said. "I say what I think is best for college football and say what I think is best for the players and the kids. As I said, it's not about him or anybody else."

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