Nobody has expressed concerns about Prohm's religion.
The fact that he intends to practice his religion with the team right before games doesn't sit well with everyone.
If we're gonna have this discussion, let's at least make it honest.
Are you happy with Coach Prohm so far?
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Nobody has expressed concerns about Prohm's religion.
The fact that he intends to practice his religion with the team right before games doesn't sit well with everyone.
If we're gonna have this discussion, let's at least make it honest.
I'm religious but I wouldn't identify myself as evangelical. Myself I'm a little cautious about evangelicalism.
I like that prohm is going to hold his guys to a high standard. But I'm curious what he'll do the first time someone gets into trouble. Can't be kicking guys off the team.
This is my potential concern and it isn't one yet because this hasn't happened yet. But I think there's a good chance that Abdel Nader, being Egyptian and named Abdel and all, is Muslim and not Christian. If he is, he probably doesn't pray the same way as a Christian. How do you handle that if you regularly doing team prayers?
ideally that's what he'll do.
Hell maybe all that praying is working since it is August 11th and we haven't had so much as a public intoxication yet.
It's Abdel Nader, not OSama Bin Laden. I'm not religious at all and I think it's dumb, but I went to a funeral on Saturday and bowed my head with everyone else at this crazy-conservative church and just thought about bikini babes while everyone else was praying. It's shouldn't be a big deal unless you are a hardline fanatic.
Praying is just another word for hoping. It's not a big deal and I'm sure it's not the first time Nader has had to deal with it.
Baylor murdered a player and covered up the murder and the next year were saying they landed incredible recruits because of how religious they were. Doubt there will ever be a bigger example than that.
I think the dude is a bum. Hasn't sent a player to the NBA draft. None of his players have graduated or been on the Academic B12 Team. No Tourney Appearances, or B12 Tourney victories. Hell, he hasn't even won a game yet. ISU should expect better than this! :realmad:
This conversation is more than played out, but I have no clue what that means. And your experience with religion has no bearing on someone else's experience.
Also don't see how your definition of praying relates to the situation at all. Were you trying to analyze the situation and offer something valuable to the discussion, or just show us how edgy your non-religious ways are?
It could cause a non-Christian on the team to feel excluded, and in a public school program, that is an issue. With the social justice/PC crowd, it could cause some public friction, dysfunction or even legal action. Religion makes some people uncomfortable and I completely understand. If I was a player, I can get over the lord's prayer before a game. It would be more difficult for me to have him consistently lecturing me using Bible verses.
Has he done any of this? And that's the last time I'm posting in this thread if the religion argument is going to continue.
Prohm has done a great job so far and I'm looking forward to seeing how the team performs and the program progresses with him at the helm.
Since you asked, I'll answer. Not being particularly religious myself, if my company got a new boss and she started every staff meeting with a Christian-based group prayer, that would be a real turn off for me personally. But if I saw that everyone else was participating, I'd probably be in there also, because nobody wants to take on the boss, whether directly or indirectly. Would it be a big deal to me? No, but it would feel plenty awkward.
I'd feel the same whether it was Muslim-based prayers, Wiccan-based prayers or even Festivus-based prayers.
I see Prohm much like the YMCA. Based on principles but all inclusive. I think it would be career suicide to do otherwise.
