http://www.usatoday.com/sports/preps/basketball/2002-10-06-st-anthonys-cover_x.htm
This is an interesting article about coach Hurley, from a catholic school in New Jersey, the school is falling apart, is in a horrible part of Jersey City, with kids that loose parents to AIDS, they don't have a basketball gym, but he has sent kids to ivy league schools, 200 college scholarships, as the school falls apart around them.
He says the key to his success is that he holds the kids to a higher standard, asking them to sign a contract when they play for him.
On the flip side
http://www.whas11.com/news/local/stories/whas11_topstory_090330-player-dies-lawsuit.87077991.html
A 13 year old middle school player dies of heart complications during a practice.
As coaches we need to get back to coaching kids, and not damaging kids. We need to get back to helping parents challenge kids, no just concern ourselves so much with winning, and more about challenging kids and keeping them to a higher standard, so they can survive in the outside world.
Ask yourself why a 13 year old is being pushed so hard that he died during a middle school practice?
