Is what I am stuck with this season. YIKES! I really screwed the pooch during recruiting. Regardless, has anyone actually ever used a 7-man rotation before?  and will I be lucky to even win 8 to 10 games?

if you play slow, it can be done - people have certainly done it

now, it will help if your guys have good stamina and if you play zone, but dont change systems for this

yikes, how did you recruit no one? I made a thread last week during Phelan NT. A team was playing a 6 man rotation, slowdown, with zone defense. He made it to the elite 8 in D3. But you are going fastbreak/m2m, so it's hard to say. 

Posted by tianyi7886 on 4/12/2011 1:36:00 AM (view original):
yikes, how did you recruit no one? I made a thread last week during Phelan NT. A team was playing a 6 man rotation, slowdown, with zone defense. He made it to the elite 8 in D3. But you are going fastbreak/m2m, so it's hard to say. 

I signed 2 players, but got caught up in a heap of recruiting battles, and well, the rest is history..I've been back in HD for a half-dozen seasons now since last playing years ago. Still working out the recruiting kinks, clearly.

I've successfully  used 7-8 man rotations before but I don't use fastbreak.  It'll be interesting to see....

I don't like your chances with the fastbreak.  I'd consider throwing that SF as the 3rd string for all 5 positions, since he's the only walk on with any speed.  I miss the days when you could sometimes get a diamond in the rough walk on.

A couple season ago, I made the second round of the NT in D1 Allen with Duquesne using a 7-man, so semi-success can be had.  Of course, I used slowdown and had a really strong starting lineup, but it's possible.

I agree with the other that the uptempo sets are going to kill you.

Posted by isles911 on 4/12/2011 1:35:00 AM (view original):
Is what I am stuck with this season. YIKES! I really screwed the pooch during recruiting. Regardless, has anyone actually ever used a 7-man rotation before?  and will I be lucky to even win 8 to 10 games?

Yes, with FB you will be lucky to win 10 games.  You would need great talent, great stamina, a medium-to-weak schedule, and some luck to make FB work with 7 players in the SIM engine.

It's going to be rough but you have no choice. Foul trouble and tired players is going to be a problem playing a FB. Just chalk it up to a lesson learned during recruiting.

I think you should change your line-up a little, but this is just what I would do.  My starting 5 in your situation would be, harrison and Walker at guard, Messina SF and Winter and Hundley in the frontcourt.  I would drop Poythress to the bench and have him get minutes as the back-up Big.  Messina could be the back-up guard then when Brown would come in at back-up SF, but in the fastbreak offense I would rather have Messina getting minutes  as SF.   Poythress I feel gives you very little, especially at SF, I would have him back up PF and C.  The starters would be set to either tired or very tired, or I might go with target minutes just to get more control of minutes in an ideal game of who you want playing when.

Fastbreak makes it difficult, but lots of teams have used seven man rotations in HD to some success.  I went to the Elite 8 in Allen last season with a scant eight man roster.