EAST LANSING -- Behind the high fences of the Michigan State football practice facility, some scenes have played out during Michigan State's first few preseason camp practices that would look strange to an outsider.
When passes sail long and fall incomplete, defensive players will race to be the first pick the ball up off the turf.
If a ball is fumbled, a yell of "horseshoe" might go out to alert defenders to create a semicircle around the ball.
It's all in the name of "ball disruption", a new system brought in by new defensive ends coach Chuck Bullough to sharpen the team's focus on takeaways and boost the team's all-important turnover ratio.