Beaver: Hackett taking a run at Harbaugh through the 49ers

it was thought to be good manners, professional etiquett if you will, to ask an employer for permission to speak to an employee.

Hired Holtz in 1976 from the Jets with 1 game remaining in the NFL schedule.  And they hired Petrino in 2007 from the Falcons with 3 games remaining.

All I know is somehow it means this...

We can contact Harbaugh today if we wanted to since we're not an NFL team.

A little fishy coming from Beaver.

Baby Bull-- Look at all those cows dad. Let's run down and fuck one. 

Dad Bull-- No son, let's walk down and fuck them all.

Don't take a run...walk and carry a shit load of money. Ok, it's a stretch.

Falcons never granted permission to Arkansas directly.  However the deal got done with help from 3rd party influence.

Excerpt from the chain of events:

"(Jerry) Jones, a former Arkansas football player, first phoned Blank last Thursday afternoon and told the Falcons owner he had gotten a call from the chairman of the board at Arkansas. The school wanted permission to speak to Petrino, Blank said. "I almost dropped the phone," Blank said.
"From my perspective, the answer is no," Blank said he told Jones. But Blank told Jones to call Rich McKay, the Falcons' president and general manager, for a formal answer.
On Friday, Petrino called Blank to tell him he was thinking of returning to college coaching. That same day, McKay talked to Jones. "I told him I was not inclined to grant permission," McKay said.
That didn't stop Petrino's agent, Russ Campbell of Birmingham. Campbell told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday there were discussions as early as three weeks ago. Campbell insisted he first told Blank and McKay of Petrino's unhappiness three weeks ago and that going back to college coaching was a possibility. "Arthur told me that if any time Bobby was no longer comfortable, all he had to do was come to him and he would let him go back to college football," Campbell said.
That is when Campbell said he first called Arkansas about Petrino's availability. Arkansas wasn't interested until late last week, when Jim Grobe of Wake Forest turned down the job, Campbell said. "The conversations took place over a series of days, but as it is with any talks, there is an ebb and flow," Campbell said.
On Sunday afternoon, McKay said, he talked to Jones, the Cowboys owner, again. McKay again said he was not inclined to grant permission for the school to talk to Petrino. Jones asked for a final answer so "he could get back to the people at Arkansas," McKay said.
Later that day, Petrino and McKay met with Blank at the owner's home. Petrino laid out his concerns as Blank took notes on a legal pad. Blank repeatedly refused on Wednesday to say what Petrino wanted, but was adamant the issues were not insurmountable. All Blank would say was that Petrino was concerned about the differences between coaching in college and the NFL.
The Sunday meeting did not resolve Petrino's issues. The three men would meet again Monday afternoon.
On Monday morning, according to Arkansas' out-going athletics director, Frank Broyles, there was more conversation about Petrino coming to the school. Added Campbell, Petrino's agent: "Things began to come to a head on Monday."
Broyles, who was in Atlanta on Wednesday on unrelated business, told the Journal-Constitution about Jones' contact with Blank.
"What I have heard is that [Jones and Blank] are good friends," Broyles said. "I was told Jerry got permission from Arthur Blank. Jerry talked to Arthur to get an interview. What happened after that, I don't know."
Blank and McKay both said Wednesday they never granted that permission.
Broyles said he did not have direct knowledge of the negotiations.
McKay said Wednesday that Jones' actions did not violate NFL tampering rules because Jones did not represent himself as an NFL owner."

They owe the University of Michigan a huge favor for Walt Downing, Bubba Paris and Dwight Hicks, not to mention owing the entire world of television viewers a massive apology for unleashing Randy Cross on us all as a "football analyst". Good God.

They have a former HC (Eric Mangini) on the roster and other satisfactory fill-ins candidates for an interim basis.  That's the only reason why I could see them reaching out to SF now.

I would imagine that former teammates, other past (and perhaps current) Wolverines and coaches, are reaching out by whatever means they can to lobby Jim to come back to Michigan and be a worthy successor to the coaching legacy of Bo, Fritz and Fielding. If anyone can appeal to him emotionally, and overcome the whole "no one (who's good) leaves the NFL" line of b.s., they can. I note that with the exception of Jamie Morris, I haven't heard much from former players on this issue. To the extent that anyone really knows what he's thinking right now, I'll bet they do. Since we haven't heard anything publicly, my money is on: He's coming and the deal, while probably not signed, is already agreed in principle.