Funny you bring this up.  Thought it might have just been me.
Well I got 
ZERO pops for the first 
4 weeks of the season... & one of the guys being trained was a 19 year old with 2 
pitiful skill levels!  His related skills (for the elastic effect that people used to talk about) were all at least 5-6 levels higher!  
Also, I  haven't gotten a single one of the new random cross-training pops... 
not even 1.  Despite having a bunch of players with some 
*very* high sub-levels.  I mean insanely high.
So all I've noticed so far is a moderate slow down in expected training times, without a single cross-training benefit
