Far too many USATF finalists do “not have standard” for World’s

Devil's advocate: Does USATF need to tighten the qualification standards for national championships?

"Growing the sport!" "Incentive for college athletes to extend their season!" "Post collegians will stop running if they don't have something to shoot for!" Blah blah. I personally think that the nationals should essentially become a two day affair of mostly all finals with tougher qualification standards. Publish the qualifying standards in January and let the athletes/coaches determine a schedule that gives the best chance to achieve it.

It's a US championship, doesn't matter if we have a ton of people with an arbitrary world standard or not. Does the German nationals only accept people with the world standard? No, they have their own qualification standards to have a German championship to crown German national champions.

What needs to go away is stop considering a person to be qualified by if they have the world standard or not. The main point of qualification that world athletics wants to use is the world ranking, so they should start putting the world ranking next to someone's name instead of the stupid green WCS mark. Everyone knows the auto standards are incredibly difficult to hit, that's because world athletics wants to go off their world rankings instead of having auto standards. They want this because they give way too many bonus points to their designated world athletics label races so that people who compete at those meets can be ahead of people who are better but compete at non world athletics meets. That forces people to do the world athletics meets if they want to qualify for worlds.

Actually, two men have the long jump standard: Matthew Boling, who jumped 8.25m indoors earlier this year, and Marquis Dendy, who jumped 8.27m to get the bronze medal in the World Indoor Championships.

Also, Monae Nichols, Tara Davis and Jasmine Moore all have the standard in the women's long jump.

Don’t field event athletes want to throw, jump, put or vault as well they possibly can at the U.S. championships? There are no TTs for field events.

In the women’s javelin, Kara Winger has the standard, as does Maggie Malone, who fouled all three throws & didn’t make the finals. Ariana Ince will get in off the world rankings. Malone should get in because she competed at nationals.

Ok. Will USATF send them to Eugene, as they finished 12th and 10th respectively in the Nationals. If so, would they have been selected if they had not competed last weekend, just because no one else had made the standard? Genuine question, not trolling.