We think we speak for everyone when we say that it’s great having Jim Harbaugh and Jim Harbaugh’s Mouth in the I-A coaching ranks. Well, maybe not everyone. He already aroused the ire of USC fans by suggesting Pete Carroll was leaving after this season and clearly annoyed Carroll with his “greatest team ever” comments.

And now he’s got Michigan bent out of shape after these comments in May, disparaging his alma mater:

“Michigan is a good school and I got a good education there,” he said, “but the athletic department has ways to get borderline guys in and, when they’re in, they steer them to courses in sports communications. They’re adulated when they’re playing, but when they get out, the people who adulated them won’t hire them.”

Those comments went over about as well as you’d imagine in Ann Arbor. Here’s what Wolverines coach Lloyd Carr had to say about Harbaugh:

“Do I think they’re elitist? Yeah,” Carr told The Detroit News on Wednesday. “Arrogant? Yes. Self-serving? Yes.”

Running back Mike Hart was even less amused:

“He’s not a Michigan man, and I wish he had never played here,” Hart said this week during the Big Ten media meetings in Chicago. “I’ve never met him, and I don’t want to.”

Jimbo, you might want to reconsider returning to Ann Arbor for Homecoming this year. And instead of taking shots at the last two teams to play in the Rose Bowl, you might want to spend your time figuring out how to get your own cellar dweller of a program back to Pasadena.

But you do have one thing going for you: you don’t have to play at the Big House like you do at the Coliseum. Otherwise USC wouldn’t be the only school looking to score 80 on you.