What type of foul, if any?

[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. So I said I was glad he was wrong about whether it was dead.

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.

Thanks everyone.