Kennedy, let's call on the coach, had started to make it his practice to pray at the 50 yard line of the football field. Kennedy: Was this ok under his work place rules? No. The school district didn't find out that the coach is doing this until another school's football coach told the bremberton principal that, hey, it's cool that you allow a coach to do this,. And this happens years later. A conservative majority in the coach's case says, this is clearly private speech. He wasn't coaching. He was engaged in quiet prayer. If we let the school district fire this coach for his quietcis an prayer, then you know what else