The coach definitely shouldn't get fired or anything, but it was certainly inappropriate to take those students to a church, voluntarily or otherwise, if for no other reason than it creates controversies just like this. Praying before a game is absolutely harmless. I don't even really consider that prayer, it's more like glorified hope. But if that's not allowed, then actually getting them baptized is, as Cenk would put it, beyond the bounds of reason. In retrospect, it was all harmless, no harm, no foul, but I have to agree with Jayar's point. Ask the parents, even if it's just as a courtesy. Then you have everyone on the same page and no one gets upset.

By the way, the best point of the debate was made by Cenk. If this guy had taken those players to a mosque and they came back Muslim, this would have been a much bigger story and the loudest voices would have been shouting, "No way, he can't do that!"