NCAA rules clinic

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

(snip) there is no requirement for a player being entered in the batting order to make an immediate appearance as a batter

Last year's NCAA ruleset/interpretations did require this. For example, if the 4-5-6 batters were due up in the inning, Coach could not sub for B5 until her turn to bat. It was not intuitive, slowed the game, and complicated things with respect to DP/Flex. IMO, they fixed it, which is why I said earlier that I think this is a positive rule change.