Rebuilds in HD usually take 3-5 seasons based on how development works and IQ. I'll just say prepare to get destroyed in conference play, the only real chances you have of even coming close to a win is NCWC and Ferrum, otherwise the humans are all going to be ~20+ point losses. Your non conference doesn't seem to bad so you can probably nab a few wins, but they won't mean anything. Whatever you do schedule the easiest games possible in non-conf do not schedule humans even if they suck, you want to just schedule automatic wins at this point.
I'm sure you know about what types of players to recruit especially to become A+ prestige which takes success. Your first two players are probably not going to contribute very much to a winning squad.
It seems you are running a press right now, I'd suggest switching to the man since thats what the returning players know, if you want to run the press I'd keep playing man, but practice the press defense and switch once the IQ is high enough, you don't learn press IQ faster by playing the press defense only by practicing it.
You definitely need to scout more than just NC to get good, you could manage since NC is one of the best places to recruit, but you are severely limiting yourself for something that you should try later on after you've established yourself.
To go to D1 straight from D3 you will have to build up Chowan and probably need 8+ consecutive seasons of NT bids not going far and maybe 6+ if you can manage a few deep runs. It's possible to move up really quick but you would be needing E8 or farther every season.
Rebuilding teams sucks and takes a long time, it's not fun and is a really bad part about HD, 4-5 seasons is at least 6 months before you can potentially start to make noise if you recruit strong, but once you get there it is really fun.
If you have time I'd highly suggest moving to a 2 games a day world as they move much faster ~30 days compared to 45 days so 4-5 seasons is ~4 months compared to 6 months.
1/6/2016 7:07 PM (edited)