Seems plausible enough to me. The academic job market is absolutely brutal. Ever more administrators are being hired, and (in some disciplines anyway) fewer an

Seems plausible enough to me. The academic job market is absolutely brutal. Ever more administrators are being hired, and (in some disciplines anyway) fewer and fewer tenure-track professors. As a result, there are tons of experts, with traditional academic training in spades, who are eager to work in their domain of expertise, and who might be well inclined to engage in some "disruption".