What we know wrote:
Desert Rodent says: "He (Rodgers) cheated himself and more importantly us....................
You sound like one of the worlds great a**holes. Rodgers didn't and doesn't owe you anything. Not then, not now and not ever. Crawl back in your hole rodent.
That may be true. I wonder if Bill had the chance for a do-over, whether he might run less of the roads and more of other surfaces, and race overseas more. Did he run national track champs just the once (1976)?
PS No one answered how fast he was capable of running a 5,000.