Re: That's what you get when you play the "We're the *safe* pair of hands" card
It happens in other fields. I work for a STEM faculty which was formed by merging a successful Math, Computing and Technology one with a failing Science one. The new faculty is run almost entirely by people from the science side - it's not as if they have many students to teach - and is failing brutally as a result of evaluation the same policies which knackered the science faculty.