I don't care about organized sports much, and big collegiate sports are basically under my radar. But I'll tell you something -- some of the best "leaders" I've

I don't care about organized sports much, and big collegiate sports are basically under my radar. But I'll tell you something -- some of the best "leaders" I've hired over the years were athletes -- especially collegiate athletes -- especially female athletes in underappreciated sports. There's an incredible drive there to tactics, organization, consensus building, and so on that I never appreciated while growing up as a nerd in tech. Later, when I ended up with an employee who had both a strong tech and sports background I really started to appreciate the benefits of a collegiate sports education. That all being said, professional sport appear to be out of control in a similar way that k-pop, appears to be. The real problem is that, outside of monetary compensation for themselves and their agents, these job categories offer very little in the way of societal benefit. They aren't building homes for the homeless nor are they curing cancer or colonizing Mars. A nearly endless supply of new recruits, combined with limited professional positions plus the modern celebrity-industrial-complex, creates and endlessly toxic environment that sends young people into career funnels that produce failed <insert job> instead of successful <insert social benefit>. Conversely, when I was going to my higher education, the universities were overrun with incoming students who had been convinced that Computer Science was the way to a stable and prosperous career regardless of their personal passions for the field and the industrial uses for CS graduates. Tax subsidies to pro-sports systems appear to be nothing more than a social cancer in the same way. Tens of thousands of sports hopefuls literally erasing years from their lives so that they might have a chance at a lower-tier professional feeder league -- which again contributes very little to overall society -- if Football disappeared tomorrow, it would have very little long-term disruption to anybody. Bread and Circuses are only valuable to bakeries and race course hot dog vendors.