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Originally Posted by A Pennsylvania Coach
In our JV game last night, there was a foul called during this dead ball period. It was a common foul. I asked at the break about it, and he said if the ball was dead, he would've called a tech, it was significant enough to call that.
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By rule, then, the personal foul he called should have been either intentional or flagrant.
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Then after the break, he told me it wasn't dead, because he talked to his mentor, one of the V refs that night, a guy I know pretty well. He said it was live, because the clock was running. Takes a whistle to make the ball dead, he told me. I didn't think that was right at all.
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You're right, coach - the varsity ref needs to look back over his rulebook.
Just as a clarification for everyone reading, the ball becomes live again when it is at the disposal of the inbounding team, which may come before the inbounding team touches the ball.