"I know from talking to people on the Park City ski team, their goal is not to make the U.S. Ski Team; the goal is to get a college scholarship now," said Ligety, who is from Park City. "So the whole goal system of everybody in the U.S. has changed to, 'I want to be an elite ski racer racing World Cup but my pathway there is through college and get good enough that I'm skipping all these little steps to race World Cup and not having to pay. ... That whole system has killed our talent pool."