How many years does it take to kill our program?
That happened in the length of time it took to hire Weber. The program is now exactly analagous to one of those Silicon Valley zombie businesses that looked really promising for a while, went through a couple of rounds of venture financing, made some great hires (including the classics: whiz-kid, grumpy old highly successful veteran & rags-to-riches complete unknown with a lot of talent), built a cool prototype product, showed some signs of life and moved into really nice digs. But now everyone outside the business knows the gig is up: the fatal flaws are exposed to the world, the product's failure is imminent, the next round of funding (here read "good coaching & recruiting") will never happen and soon the vultures will be picking the bones. Enjoy the final season or, maybe, two of coasting; nothing good will happen after that.