There's definitely a range between tenure-track professorship and professional sports as careers. Plus I think there may be some wider lack of knowledge about j

There's definitely a range between tenure-track professorship and professional sports as careers. Plus I think there may be some wider lack of knowledge about just how more competitive professorships at colleges have become recently. I seem to recall it's in the 10s to 100s of thousands. Professional sports is much more scarce. Probably those two help flush out what a range of acceptable odds to aim to overcome and maybe not looks like. Most PhDs (all?), though, are beyond the diminishing returns to additional outlays of effort. Diminishing returns are probably a good metric to inform people about, too.