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I've been thinking about this over night and have a little more sympathy for Bobby Wilder today. He was hired for a job, and that job was to start a program and coach it to respectability at the 1AA level quickly. Bobby excelled at that job. He truly did a fantastic job. Then, based on decisions made by Wood and Broderick (good or bad, either way), Bobby got promoted to a job he is incapable of handling. He was asked by his bosses to take on more than he could do. Its not the job he applied for, and not the one he accepted. Ive been in that situation at work before. It can be a fun challenge, and you give your best possible effort. Sometimes it works, but sometimes its just above your skillset, and what you were hired to do. I think thats the case with Bobby. That doesn't mean he should be our coach, or he has the ability to win at the FBS level. But it does make me feel a little bad for him. He probably wishes we were still FCS where he was winning all the time. He probably knows thats where he belongs too. Should he be let go... yes. But maybe we should be nicer about it since he didnt ask for all this.