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Mike Dontonio (get off my lawn!!!)

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buxfan4life said:
Well, it is the D's job to disrupt the play.

The whining coaches do about this trivial [Mark May] is getting old. When I hear excuses like this it screams to me "We didn't coach our guys correctly so now I want to blame someone else!!" It is very pedster like if you ask me.
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I did see this over on 247:

RULE 7 Snapping and Passing the Ball
Section 1
Defensive Team Requirements
Article 5 (a) 3.

No player shall use words or signals that disconcert opponents when they are preparing to put the ball in play. No player may call defensive signals that simulate the sound or cadence of (or otherwise interfere with) offensive starting signals.

PENALTY — Dead-ball foul. Five yards from the succeeding spot
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Meets the definition of the rule. So basically if the offense uses a clap, you can't (one of those inherent advantages offenses have). Technically speaking it doesn't even matter if you truly use the clap for defensive line alignments.

Having said that, Bo should be taking it up with the officials more than MSU. Potentially very lame on Dantonio's part IF they only did it against Nebraska. But if they truly do it normally, and this just happens to be the first team they've faced who uses the clap, then that fault lands on Bo. They do have tape of the MSU defense, no?
 
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I'd have more respect for Dantonio if he'd be a man and say they clapped to exploit a weakness in the offensive cadence and it wasn't a penalty because no flags were thrown. Making up a clearly bullshit lie about it does him no favors in my book.

Dantonio coached "dirty" while at OSU (Robert Reynolds being the prime example) and he continues to coach "dirty" at MSU.
 
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UpNorth_Buckeye said:
Having said that, Bo should be taking it up with the officials more than MSU. Potentially very lame on Dantonio's part IF they only did it against Nebraska. But if they truly do it normally, and this just happens to be the first team they've faced who uses the clap, then that fault lands on Bo. They do have tape of the MSU defense, no?
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They impersonated Braxton's claps last year.
 
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jwinslow said:
They impersonated Braxton's claps last year.
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I don't remember that, but that's something that A) should have been called given the above rule and B) makes it look like the blame should be on Bo for not seeing it on tape. Unless they only do that against teams that use the clap and Nebraska is the first team this year that uses the clap. Maybe Bo's staff (heh, Bo's staff
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) didn't watch last season (and therefore the B1G Championship game) as closesly as this year's film. If that is the case, then yea very lame on Dantonio's part. It would be like a DL saying "HUT" to call their DL against teams that use vocal ques on offense, and then just tapping players when they play a team that uses a clap.
 
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