This is an excerpt from a recent article that Rick Reilly about kiffin that includes a quote from Jim Harbaugh:
The lawsuit is phonier than Tori Spelling, of course. Pola, who played at USC and has a son who's going to walk on there, was the only one legally obligated to ask permission, not Kiffin. It would've been nice for Kiffin to do it, "but not everybody asks the head coach first when they're looking for an assistant," Stanford head coach Jim Harbaugh said Thursday