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Under NCAA rules the player who kicked the ball does not get any "special" protection, and contact with the A "kicker" cannot be roughing the kicker. If the "slobberknocking" included any action that would have drawn a PF flag if we consider A to be the runner, which is what he actually is, then we have a foul.
Under NCAA rules to be afforded "kicker" status, and be protected by the roughing the kicker rules, A must meet 2 conditions:
1. Kick must come from a scrimmage kick formation, where the intent to kick is fairly obvious, and
2. Player must kick the ball from that formation without "much running" from the formation after the snap (we'll leave the description of "much running" for another thread).
Otherwise, unless we have some form of PF against the runner, A just got "slobberknocked", and no foul.
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