re: Is Taylor Dugas the biggest mistake of the Mainieri era

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How do you know this on signing day?

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You don't. The question is more, let's say you did. Let's say you regarded Mahtook as the better player but it was relatively close. Does that change the calculus or do you always go with the better player in terms of the skills you identify.

This question isn't about being unfair to Mainieri with hindsight so much as recognizing we could have had Dugas, was not finding a spot for him a mistake, and do you take a 3 or 4 year player if they are close.

Obviously, 99% of the posters will tell me we didn't know that at the time. I get that. Just trying to get some thoughts on the situation now that we know mostly how it played out.

ETA: if you can't evaluate a decision based on the outcome, you can never classify anything as a mistake. Choosing an alternative that was reasonable at the time without regard to the consequences can't ever be a mistake, by definition. Only the outcome tells us if a mistake was made.