Norm said it on air on the most listened to radio station in the metroplex. That's how you re-connect with alums, right?
If the AD does read this board, here is my messsage:
PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!
If you cross your fingers and hope that it will get better next year, you are dooming this program to to at least 5 years of non-competitiveness. And you should be affecting your job status, but we are UNT, so who knows about that.
Buy him out. Find a way. This is your mistake. FIX IT!