I just finished watching Hoop Dreams, and I wanted to leave a thought here before it left my head.  No one can say that the job of the coach at St. Joseph's High School isn't laudable.  For a kid like William Gates to be able to come out of the ghetto, have a private school education, and get a scholarship to a place like Marquette is wonderful.  But the attitude of the coach, and the largely purveying attitude of all coaches at that time, both in high school and in college, at least for major programs (sorry for that poorly constructed sentence), is that you can never do enough.  You can never give enough heart, effort, commitment.  You could have done so much better if only... and it seems to be, really, to make the coach look good.  To boost his ego.  When does it stop?  When does "working with kids" end and "boosting my own personal success" begin?