Looking at Forbes record, prior to his last three years, Forbes used his bench extensively.
At ETSU, four his five teams were top 100 in the nation in bench minutes. Not sure how to treat his first year at WF, it was a COVID season and everyone sucked, but that team was actually 35th in the nation in bench minutes.
Here is the bench minutes (the amount of bench minutes per the 200 available team minutes) rundown:
2016 ETSU 35.6% #76
2017 ETSU 35.7% #86
2018 ETSU 38.3% #34
2019 ETSU 34.8% #70
2020 ETSU 29.6% #190
2021 WF 38.1% #35
2022 WF 25.2% #298
2023 WF 27.1% #268
2024 WF 22.7% #336
FWIW, among Power Conference teams only Kansas (#337), Creighton (#355) and Seton Hall (#356) have logged fewer bench minutes than WF in 2024.
And this gets to the conclusion that it's not his philosophy to not play more than 6-7 guys regularly, but rather it's been a necessity because we haven't had more than that who are ready to play at this level.
2022 - We saw a lot of Carter Whitt. Many many chances to develop and become a bigger contributor, but ultimately it wasn't working, the coaching staff sees his stats and the lineup +/- data and goes away from him completely once Monsanto returns.
2023 - Zach Keller saw a bunch of opportunity early on. But over a 4 game stretch against Wisconsin, LSU, Rutgers, and Clemson, we went -39 in 51 minutes with him on the floor (5 total rebounds and minimal offensive contribution) and his minutes dried up. Given another chance later, we went -10 in 2:52 of our 2 point home loss to BC and that was about it.
Lucas Taylor was similarly given an opportunity early. 40 minutes in our first 3 games. 22 minutes games 2/3 against Georgia and Utah Valley netted a -21 in which he scored 0 points and 3 rebounds and our defense got worse as well -- to the bench he goes.
Marsh played a total of 9 minutes through 4 games -- but then got an opportunity. We were much better with him on the floor in 2023 because Appleby in particular unlocked him on the offensive end (and our other options weren't good) and he actually had our 3rd highest +/- in conference play at +44 (trailing only Hildreth and Monsanto, just ahead of Appleby).
2024 - Canka played 9 minutes in the opener and 22 over our first 6 games (not recording a single Point, Reb, Stl, Bl, or Assist). We were outscored when he was on the floor in each of these games and totaled -25.
MMM - played A TON early on. +26 in the comeback against Elon earned him a long look in the absence of other options. Eclipsed 20 minutes in 4 of our 7 games before Reid came back. Averaged 12 minutes over 11 games vs Q1-3 opponents through the first UVA game. We were -53 in those minutes, outscored in 10 of 11, and he had the worst +/- of anyone we played in 5 of those 11 games. Then his playing time dried up.
The coaching staff has shown over and over that they will try out anyone that has shown anything at all in practice in real game action and see the result. When the results have consistently trended poorer and poorer, they'll minimize playing time and eventually take it away entirely so we aren't throwing games away in the process. 
