God and football. This is outrageous:

[LittleBlue]

1. What's outrageous?

Players are not required to attend FCA meetings or participate in devotionals and team prayers, but Freeze encourages them to join him. On this day, dozens have taken him up on it. “I tell them or our position coaches will: ‘We have worship on Sunday,’ ” the coach says.

“I don’t stand over them, make them do it; certainly they hopefully see that it’s important to me and maybe the way I live and the way these other coaches live. Maybe it attracts them to it.”

It's not required. College teams have over 100 players, and the article says "dozens attended", meaning he got nowhere close to the whole team attending. He seems open about his faith, and every recruit that comes there knows they'll be playing for a super Christian coach. Which probably gives him a leg up on Christian recruits while turning away nonreligious ones.

Some recruits like the party atmosphere, and some are drawn to a more spiritual lifestyle. I recall several universities losing Christian recruits because they threw sex parties for the recruits.