As Krummenacker and Teter are showing, Americans have an excellent chance to excel at the 800. In fact, that we haven't had people right in the thick of things is truly the clearest indication that we are doing a bad job in terms of developing talent. With all our sub 47 400 guys, there's no way that we shouldn't have 12 guys a year running under 1:46, with 6 more under 1:45, 3 under 1:44, and someone knocking on a sub 1:43 every other year or so.
I'm not saying that it's easy to run times, but Krummenacker is showing the way and there are three or four guys definitely in his class: Robinson, Grey, Peterson. The guy that was at UPenn, Martin, he was in that league as well. If Peter Coe were working these guys, and they were willing, we'd be looking at 1:43 and faster for the whole group.