What is the downside of upping your defense/offense minutes in practice?

I have a team of 6 good seniors, and all other new players to my program (1 junior and sophomore transfer + freshman) in DIII. I have offense at 25, defense at 20. Thoughts?

The downside is less minutes for individual skills. That's the tradeoff.

I believe it also takes longer to see fruit, as in higher IQ among the seniors. So it may not feel like you are accomplishing much. But you may notice lack of improvement on the seniors individual skills too if they are near max potential.

So it depends on how much you think IQ helps success of the team, how much you want the younger players who will start next year to know going into the season with IQ vs. increased individual skill.

IQ is underrated in my humble and little career. i have seen teams put 30 minutes on offense and defense and if you look at the teams going deep into the NT they end to have very high IQ's

But there are diminishing returns at a certain point. It's either 25 or 20 (I believe the former), then you're getting much less bang for your buck.

Less important to factor in in the Age of Potential, as players max out individually, but still important.

I am at 25 and 20. So, if I decreased it to 15 and 20 - I would have more available time to do individual stats? (I have 130 now).

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