Had something happen in a game last night that I have never had happen before and I don't believe will ever happen again...
Midway through the first quarter my partner calls a foul on the visiting team and reports the foul (where I work we still go tableside for HS). As we are about to administer the FT's their is some commotion at the table and the horn buzzes. We hold up the FT's and my partner goes to the table. There is an extended discussion and books are being passed back and forth. I trot over from the C while the lead holds the ball and monitors the players. It turns out that the visiting team manager transcribed a number incorrectly and put 22 in the book (no 22 on the team) instead of 23 who committed the foul.
Visiting coach starts to make excuses, gripe and generally try to whine his way out of an administrative Tech. However, I inform him that it is a rule and he had every opportunity to fix the mistake as he was given the official book to verify and I even pointed out his initialing of the book underneath the last player listed. He shrugs and starts to walk away disgusted.
Meanwhile the home coach (long tenured coach in the area) has used the break to call his team over and have a "free" timeout and is not really paying attn to the table problem. About this time he walks over and I tell him that we are going to let his player shoot the FT's for the foul and then we have a book technical for an incorrect number on V team so he can pick anyone he wants to shoot the T and he will then get the ball back at halfcourt. He then floors me with the following...
"Just forget about all of that and fix the book. It may come back to bite me later, but I am not interested in cheap points. I want to win the game on the merit of my team's play. Let's just play ball."
How would you handle? I will tell you what we did later...