Many here will recall the astro-turfed case that made it to the Supremes. Many will also recall that the 5-4 conservative majority held that… public prayers for a whole team, at the 50-yard line, at the end of each public high school football game… did not create a coercive environment for public high school student athletes who wanted to play varsity football, but did not wish to be peer-pressured into public prayers.

The Supremes didn’t say much about the impressionable kids, focusing instead on the aging coach’s “right” to use a public high school athletic event as a platform, to — in show-off fashion — exhibit his purported religious views. [Justice Sotomayor’s dissent is the better view here, BTW: “…A public school district is not required to permit such conduct; in fact, the Establishment Clause prohibits it from doing so….”] In Thomas-speak, then, the rights of one aging whyte coach should outweigh those of 50 or so impressionable youths.

Then… he was so busy doing the for-cash far right speaking tour stops… he did not reapply for about two years, to coach anywhere. He was reinstated this summer at the Bremerton (WA) High School… and just quit — after his first game.

Again — forget the commit he made to his impressionable young athletes.

He walked… out. He wants to live out of state. And presumably go back to speechifying, for far more money — for a few hours, one or two days a week.

Coaching it seems… is too much like… real work for him, now that he’s tasted the Hinderaker-allied think tank money — for doing essentially nothing. Not quite the Liberty University “movie of the week” ending Justice Thomas had imagined.

Charming.