re: ETA: What is the rule in terms of illegal snapping?

I believe there is a different penalty for what happened and it wasn't called.

This is from Wikipedia:

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while both the NCAA and NFHSAA make a distinction between an "illegal shift" and "illegal motion"; an illegal shift refers to players shifting and not coming to a complete stop before the snap while illegal motion refers to a player who is in motion towards the line of scrimmage, or a player who is not a "back" in motion.[2] In both leagues, however, the penalty for illegal motion/illegal shift is five yards from the previous spot and replay the down.

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I think if the refs were able to call a penalty on the play, it would have been an illegal shift that would not result in a dead ball foul and could be declined by the defense. A false start is where the offense gets set and then starts the play before the ball is snapped. That would have been a dead ball penalty and would not have been declinable by the defense.

In my opinion, this was mostly Dismukes at fault, but Marshall deserves a bit of blame as well. We were in a two minute drill and we are already a hurry up offense. Why Marshall decided to start barking orders after the offense had gotten set, I don't know. But Dismukes shouldn't have snapped it.