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Jumpmaster,
I can assure you that you do not call what the coaches want at the major college conference level (D1). We do not pick which rules we will enforce, since many of us are evaluated at most every game. My crew chief has worked two Super Regionals and drives home the need to enforce everything by the book.
If you want to move up, there are things you can do...
1) Hustle - including getting back to your position between
innnings. This is the number one thing that get beefed.
2) Look professional - get the best gear you can afford and
maintain it. You'll be safer, too.
3) Learn from your mistakes and don't make them again.
4) Know the rules differences between NCAA and FED or OBR.
Nothing PO's a coach more than calling the wrong rule
(well, maybe not hustling).
5) Recognize that you need to adjust your game to the level
of play. They are better - faster, trickier, stronger.
You need to create better angles and see more.
6) Never take a coach for granted. They usually got their
jobs by knowing somenthing or someone. You need coaches
on your side for recommendations, but if you are a brown
nose you'll likely only have one or two in your corner
because the others have found out and are PO'd.
7) Work as many games as you can at that level. I know that it is a Catch 22, but you won't get better games until you've proven yourself. I was working crappy JUCO ball when I got out of the Minors. A MAJOR coach was scouting a kid and approached me after the game. He asked me if I was interested in working his non-conference games and I agreed, even though I knew they would be crap. It paid off - a couple more coaches took notice and now I get conference schedules and a whole lot of travelling.
Be fair - enforce all of the rules - but realize that these guys don't live in a rule book, like many of us. They don't like being shown up and hate looking bad. Huh, that sounds a lot like us.
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