From a reliable source who spoke to the crew:
They were waiting on the BJ who went back to retreive his bean bag from the end of the kick.
It's a bean bag. It's $5. Let it go!
Deputies on duty charged with escorting the officials became caught up in the crowd rushing the field.
Understandable
The fan who rushed the R was cursing and threatening violence.
Still not sure that justified the official's actions. But that's where the deputies should have been.
The referee judged that the contact with the kicker was the result of the block by the A player.
Sorry, that's just a miss! The direction of the block was not toward the kicker. The rusher contacted the kicker IN SPITE OF the block, not BECAUSE of.
Life in D3 football. In some ways, it's worse conditions than good high school football.