I had someone call an unexpected onside kick on me last night. No big deal, but I tried to call a timeout and nothing happened. I tried to call an audible, nothing. Then he kicked it to the far sideline and my player ran ahead and tried to block the defender instead of going for the ball. The kicking team recovered it.
I've seen some great coaches try and recover surprise onside kicks, and I mean in really big games, too. Nick Saban, Bill Cowher, and Sean Payton have tried it (and recovered it) in championship game or Super Bowl situations.
But those onside kicks were completely disguised. It's different from the way an onside kick formation sets up mostly on one side of the field, making their intention obvious. I remember on NCAA Football 2017 you could audible or call timeout in that kind of situation. Strange that the ability to do this is not available on the current version of the game.
It's kind of silly that you can't do that anymore. Why did EA change it? Seems like a step back rather than forward to me. I mean, how many patches have you guys already done for this game? A lot of them have seemed kind of extraneous as far as gameplay goes. Why don't you fix this on the next patch, EA? Do a relevant patch for a change.🙃
This happens because the awareness of players go down because they are not expecting an onside kick I think it pretty cool
it's amazing how many things that are wrong with the game now weren't wrong on the old NCAA 2013 version of the game. I remember that you could audible from regular kick return to onside kick return on the old game.
Why the heck would they take that out of the new game? Boo.
I believe the rules changed once players are set they cannot move during special teams
