100%.
Not going to go into detail, but the Mas brothers were raised to be very politically powerful, though more in a quiet fashion.
It's definitely the old guard who are leaking like sieves while using Ferman like a pawn, and who are making this a public ****ing match. You are also correct, not enough muscle at the top to put a cast iron lid on this warfare.
This nastiness should have stayed within the walls of UM, and then you and I could tell people about it later. Now, the whole freakin' country knows our business.