I haven't read every post in this thread, so I repeat something that's already been said, I apologize in advance. I'll just throw a couple of thoughts out there.
Fifteen or so years ago, I had a discussion with a friend who has followed women's college basketball a lot longer that I have and who was friends with some well known college players of that era. In discussing the topic of women's college basketball, recruiting and the sexual preferences of the players, he said there are 3 types of women's basketball programs: A)The programs that only recruit heterosexual players B)The programs that only recruit lesbian players and C) The programs that don't care what the sexual preferences of their players is. The examples he gave of A were Kansas State and Penn State. The examples of C were OU and UConn. I have no reason to doubt that or think it's changed.
Regarding players religious beliefs, I think we sometimes tend to assume that because one or two players are outspoken about their beliefs, that the rest of the players feel the same way. What they profess to believe or not believe when the graduate from college might be something completely different than the way they felt when they set foot on campus for the first time. It's really none of our business.
The former Kansas State coach got a lot of bad publicity due to statements she made about 'never allowing' lesbians on her team and her 'mandatory' bible study. I don't think Sherri is that stupid.
We do know that OU conducts background checks on all athletes before scholarships are offered because that's been publicized. That doesn't mean that they are all as pure as the driven snow but it does filter out those with criminal records that haven't been sealed by the court, I guess.
So far, we haven't had any former players condemn OU or Sherri the way Brittney Griner felt compelled to speak about Mulkey and Baylor in her biography, so we must be doing something right.
The bottom line is that none of this is any of our business. Players are entitled to a personal life off of the basketball court. I don't care if they are gay or straight, evangelical Christians, Jews, Muslims or Rastafarians and I don't think our coaches do either, as long as they are a good representative of The University of Oklahoma.
