Depends… If it’s a religious institution’s field, no. If it’s a municipal field Yes. There is Religious Freedom which is an Individual Right and Property Rights which may or may not agree with public prayer. Some people like to pray. Other people don’t like it and yet others who are offended, oftentimes deeply offended by prayer. Those people should not be forced to observe someone engaging in behavior they abhor in a public place. Prayer must never be shoved down someone’s throat or into their sight or into their ears.
Who gets to say depends on the property owner. If it’s a public venue then prayer can be reasonably expected to offend some people. While some people like to pray, some people are indifferent, some do not like it and some others are offended by it.
So the firing of the coach may be justified. If not he has a Freedom of Religion Right to sue. OTOH if it was a public venue and someone wants to sue him he will probably lose. Either way he should have enough common sense to understand that there are people who are not religious and other people who are anti-religious. He offended someone who had some authority so he was fired.
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