in the thir season with my team - and this year i got my first 2 dropdown recruits... but I still can't seem to make my team competitive.

Just for reference i run a press/FB... but I'm switching to motion of the course of the season. I'm willing to switch off the press as well if needed.

right now my depth chart looks like

pg - elliot/gray (elliot starts for defense)
sg - hill/pugh
sf - sakamoto/randle
pf - hussein/snavley
c - landers/nielson (stupid stamina)/loar

I know I'm missing a lot of ATH (didn't realize how important it was in my first couple recruting cycles.

I'm looking for three things - 1, is this my best lineup - and if it isn't, what would be?

2 - knowing that i plan on changing offenses (and maybe defenses) what type of player would you recruit next year to replace my 2 PGs. I know I want a PG and then I don't know with the second schollie.

3 - can this team be a 500 team? that's my goal for the season, to be 500 or above.

The two things that jump out at me are that you need to recruit 2 guards in the offseason and you need to find ones that have a lot more speed if you're still going to run the press.

Also, I would consider cutting Snavely because his 4 ath for a bigman is just so substandard that I think it makes him almost completely ineffective.  Unfortuanately you won't get any extra cash to fill his scholarship for another season :(  I'd mix your C's in the PF rotation as well. 

You could probably get away with recruiting a G and a big in the next cycle instead of 2 G's...but  your ath and team speed really need a big boost

All of your off practice should go into motion, none into fb. Keep playing fb until the motion iq's get close to fb, and then you can switch.

You can't recruit guys like Randle (sf with 11 ath). It's DIII so you have to compromise somewhere, but at sf I'd much rather see you compromise at bh, pa, etc. than recruit a sf with 11 ath and 9 reb. Honestly, I'd cut him.

I would not start Hussain -- he's a pf with low iq and 39 rebounding.

thanks - i'm going to put more time into motion during practice... and cut snavely in the offseason...

then i'll recruit 2 guards and a big man.