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I wonder how much of the "spiritual road" in the Courant article was paved by Des?
After seeing his Twitter page, I think you may be on to something.
Desmond Conner
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While players are certainly free to personally express thanks to, or invoke the aid of, whatever deity they believe in, I'm not thrilled with the idea of organized religion on the field. For example, public prayer circles where players kneel and pray in an organized fashion before or after games can have an exclusionary feel to them as some players don't feel as comfortable participating. I'm not so sure these excercises are such unifying events. Nevertheless, despite the various media reports on what was said, we may all be reading too much into what was implied here by the coach. UConn is a highly diverse and inclusive public University (with a Jewish President no less) and those factors will likely temper the type and character of any overt and organized spiritual actions which might ultimately be sanctioned here.