What’s The Lesson Learned From the Idaho HS Coach Beating? Don’t Volunteer!

We cannot imagine why anyone would want to get involved in coaching youth sports these days. If you don’t play the right kids, parents want to punch you. If you don’t play those aforementioned kids the way the parents demand, they want to punch you. Pretty much any decision made by a coach that doesn’t result in the perfect outcome for little Jimmy has the potential to lead to a world-class parental ass kicking.
And now the students are getting involved. Over the weekend, Idaho high school running back Kipton Ramos, having been underwhelmed by the performance of the officials, decided that his coach deserved a vicious beat down for it. Apparently, anything can be blamed on the coach these days!

The 18-year old is facing a serious charge — felony aggravated battery for attacking his head football coach at Nampa High, Scott Wooldridge.

“There was an altercation among the players, the coaches broke it up, and as they were walking back, one of the players hit the coach,” explained Allison Westfall, Nampa School District spokesperson.

According to Nampa police it was a very violent attack, on a man who was simply trying to remove one of his top players from the brawl.

“I believe he was hit repeatedly,” said Lt. Stacy Mowry.

Apparently this began as a call from the referee, which a number of players including Ramos disagreed with — creating anger that quickly turned to violence.

Coach Wooldridge was hospitalized for a short time afterwards.

He suffered some relatively extensive damage to his face, which includes a broken eye socket and nasal cavity.

That’s the reason Kipton Ramos is facing a felony charge instead of a misdemeanor.

Apparently, Lil’ Kipton’s rage was so righteous and justified that nothing was gonna stop him from beating on his opponent. And if his coach had to be brutalized, well, so be it. Can’t let a little thing like authority get in the way of Nampa pride, baby!
Ramos’ dad asked the judge at his arraignment to lower Kipton’s bail so he could attend school Monday. Awkward. We’d like to point out that a broken-eye socket is the kind of injury you usually see in the aftermath of a car accident. If he makes bail, we think Kipton should probably spend a few hours with his neighborhood psychiatrist. After you practically kill the coach, maybe homeroom isn’t a top priority. At least for a few days.
Nampa High football player arrested for punching coach [Fox 12/KTRV]
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