Like anything, it depends on the circumstances. I'm as big a fan of Capel as a coach as anyone on this board, but if we find ourselves in a situation come the summer where we've put all of our eggs in the Karim Mane basket, and the kid decides to either stay in the draft or go elsewhere, and we've missed out on a bunch of otherwise viable grad transfers in the process, then that decision will ultimately come back to bite Capel.
It seems clear to me that when Trey transferred, the staff decided that they needed to go after another guard, which is when they escalated their recruitment of Mane. It's just a much riskier move to go all-in on Mane (and again, I'm making the assumption that they're all-in on Mane because we haven't heard them connected to anyone else right now - that could change, but it seems like that's the situation today) versus pushing the chips in on a quality, but achievable, grad transfer for the 2020-21 season - the kid from Monmouth who just entered the portal this week, for example - and going into May with your roster intact. On the other hand, the situation that appears more likely is that Mane either stays in the draft in June or withdraws from the draft and commits to Marquette or MSU in June...and we're stuck holding the bag with either whatever grad transfer is left on the market in the summer or just going into the year with 12 scholarships. Again, I'm as big a fan of the guy as a coach as anyone is, but I don't think that it would be unfair or overly critical to second guess the decision if that's the way it ends up going down.