What part of 3:55.02 do you not understand?
German had the 6th fastest indoor mile IN THE WORLD last year. Smith seems to see a bigger picture than the folks in Oregon are intellectually capable of, so this year I hope they try to send in to the World Indoors. If he just does as well as he did last year, he should be capable of making the US team behind Lagat.
OSU has just started their race season, but it wouldn't surprise me if German doesn't show up until Tyson--and then blow everyone away like he did last year.