DIII playoffs is the furthest I have ever gotten.
Are you going homegrown, lol? WTF is with all these 22 year olds?!
I've been fortunate to spend 9 (now 10) seasons in D2 and 6 season (54-78 record) in the NBBA.
I'm not homegrown but I am 100% USA players. I prefer to train players from scratch and I've had some negative experiences with NT managers from other countries so I only use USA players now.
I wanted to use homegrown draftees, but when I started my rebuild with the Season 59 draft, I ended up with a crappy draft class in terms of potential so I had to buy 18yo trainees off the market. I wanted to build a team of 6'5" to 6'8" players with SF skillsets. I ended up with 6 (Shelton, Edwards, Nava, Connor, Guillen and Griffith). Shelton, Edwards, Connor and Nava became my main ones moving forward. I bought Hayes later as his skill set was too much to pass up.
Shelton and Edwards were in the running for the USA U21 team but only Edwards was actually used. The challenge is trying to get more than 3 player max training.