Lafayette in Knight

I am pretty sure its a solid if not great D- build up for not being a great/elite coach, I'm not planning on winning a NT game but expect a bid through a CT or if not hopefully rpi/sos.  More looking at the players specifically guards as I have a few questions as I'm still not really sure what works best exactly.  Not really focused on depth chart help specifically more of what players work best overall so I can use it to help decide targets in recruiting and for my other and future D1 build-ups.

Guys like Scott Vachon, I know he isn't the greatest ath/def(66/70) but maintains 97 spd 70 bh and 76 pas.  I figure I am right in going with a more ath/def/bh player in Sean Rhynes as my point guard with 71 ath 84 spd 91 def 99 per and 53 pas.

Would Vachon be a good PG backup or a starting SG, I have been going with Lino Zeisler and Simon McCahill as my SG/SF even with both being lower bh/pas they have better ath/def and McCahill has been a solid scorer.

Basically everyone is finished developing that see's minutes, the only one is a C with a low WE who should finish as he will start next season(Wenzel who is mid 70's ath, 99 reb, 82+ def, 82+ lp pot)

At low D1 where I wouldn't really expect to win a NT game is it a bit better to sacrifice some ath/def to gain ratings in spd/bh/pas and possibly some per threats.  Since I would be focusing on beating sims and other low end D1 programs who won't have such elite ath/def ratings?

As well as are they're other things I can do at Lafayette to help prepare for better jobs such as gameplanning, better recruiting, etc as I'm hoping my goal is to move up to a big 6 and rebuild and stay there until I get one of my "preferable" final jobs in Knight 

Thanks

I think you're definitely on the right track man, and you've got a lot of solid/good players for a mid-major...keep it up!

I like your post players a lot, although I generally find it to be easier to recruit quality posts at D1. As far as your guards go, you're going great at getting lots of defense, but one place where you could stand to improve is recruiting players with a clear offensive skill (rather than an offensive attribute). You have guys with great BH but low passing, making it tough to use them as PGs (I do think Vachon is a decent PG, but you'd like to see his BH and Pass closer to 80 than 70; FWIW, I think recruiting a quality PG is one of the hardest things to do in D1). You have guys with great perimeter, but little BH, hampering their development as outside threats. Or great PER and BH, but iffy SPD. The guy with great PER/BH but slightly below average speed is still probably going to be a dominant scorer at low D1, but he's going to struggle to win you games when you step up in class. Attributes are packaged into skills (SPD/BH/P make up good distributor/facilitator skills, SPD/BH/PER make up good perimeter skills, etc), so it's worthwhile to try to shoot for guys who are really good in one skill rather than really good in a couple attributes that don't match well. 

And I would definitely sacrifice some ATH/DEF in order to do this (especially in your perimeter threats--you can be a perimeter threat with poor ATH). You still want a lot of great defenders on your team, but if you have a couple subpar defenders who are dominant scorers, it will make you more balanced. 

(and yes, this is pretty much a straight ripoff of what gillespie would say here, but he knows what he's doing, so I'm okay with that) 

How low would you be willing to sacrifice in ath/def for an offensive oriented guard, is an offensive oriented guard capable of starting or more for a backup 6th man?

Say 60 ath 90 spd 60 def 95 per 75 bh 75 pas, would he be better to start a SG over a guy like 80 ath 80 spd 90 def 50 per 60 bh 50 pas or have the 1st guy be coming off the bench?

If I had those two players, I would switch based on matchups, but if the opposing SG wasn't a dominant scorer, I'd be inclined to start the scoring guard