In my experience, people who hold this attitude would look down their noses at a basketball coach who asked for a hundred and ten percent from his players. But

In my experience, people who hold this attitude would look down their noses at a basketball coach who asked for a hundred and ten percent from his players. But this assignment is no different: if you're required to go above and beyond, you aren't really going above and beyond anything in particular. You're just doing what's required to finish an assignment that happens to be specified imprecisely.