I guess im not being clear or you don't understand my stance.
First I wouldn't have been screaming as we didn't bring in a solid freshmen recruit, we replaced him with a graduate transfer with less upside.
Second, we had already "wasted" two years on him what's 1 more?
Third, I'm ok with the decision both now and then. Just find it amusing the same people (and you are the same people) that were defending uchebo's spot on the roster when others complained are the same people defending dixons decision to jettison him.
You seem to think that circumstances and decisions should never change. Something can be a good decision at one point, and the opposite decision can be correct later. For instance, it may be smart to make expensive repairs on a car with 80,000 miles, and a wise decision NOT to make repairs on the same car 3 years later when it has 140,000 miles. There is nothing at all incongruous with holding an opposite opinion on something when the information changes. When Jamie took Joe, it made sense from the standpoint that we had a roster spot open late, nothing much else was available, may as well give it a shot. Later, when our team stunk and we got nothing from our 3 centers, Jamie had to make a call whether or not to replace the 2 guys who could have stayed or not. But it had to be decided in a timely manner, as Grad Transfers tend to move quick. It is possible that both could have been good decisions, based on the information available at the time.
As far as decisions not working out being a mistake. If a person, including you or me, makes a decision based on the best information at the time, and it turns out to later be proven a suboptimal decision, it was not necessarily a mistake. A mistake is not researching something at all and jumping into a decision without facts. I always read numerous reliability and safety reports before buying a vehicle, and tend to opt for more reliable and safer cars. That being said, any car can be a lemon off the line. In my world, making the decision to buy the logically "best" car is not a mistake, even if it turns out to be a lemon. I guess in your world, you would look back and say it was a mistake to have bought the typically more reliable car if the specific one you bought didn't work out. You have to go with the odds, nothing is ever a 100% certainty. But second guessing yourself is silly, so long as you did the necessary work before making the decision. At best, if something doesn't work out perfectly, look for any lessons learned, apply them, and move on.
