I'll have more to say on this later (gotta get outside and ride my bicycle), but the infusion of corporate culture into the USST system is toxic. It's as if the higher ups at USST watched Office Space and said "that Lumbergh was on to something!"
There's no support net. Athletes that are late bloomers need not apply. Athletes in a slump had better have a plan B, and plans C and D at the ready as well. And if you aren't born of money? Fuggetaboutit.
If this system had existed in the 1970s or 1980s, so many folks we associate with USST success would never have made the team.
Just my hurried $0.02.