throwing bones
Four-Star Recruit
The advantage is the fact that the defensive player mimicking the hand clap would have to physically do the action to replicate, causing a referee to see them trying to induce a premature snap. It's easier defensively to verbally say the cadence and take the "it wasn't me" stance. Either way using it to direct your defensive calls is a clever deflection to say it wasn't me, but it can be refuted by looking at tape and prior games. Bo is bringing it up to B10, to publicly let Dantonio know he's on to it.That's some gamesmanship from MSU. Dantonio's right that they can use whatever signals they want to set their defense, but we all know what's going on here.
On that note, why don't we do the snap count a different way? I always thought our QBs clapping looked odd, and don't see too many other teams doing it. We could have a verbal snap count, for example. Why not? What's the advantage to a clap, not clapping, etc?