This should have been an awesome class with 2 collegiate record holders in Batty and Merber in the same year. That's a very rare occurrence. So Batty gets beat out by an inferior runner who has never run close to the Olympic A standard and Merber doesn't even make the final. Reminds me of the year Webb was a senior in high school and he choked at senior nationals and Andy Downin won senior nationals and couldn't even get the A standard.
These guys will run the occasional impressive time and maybe place in some meets where it doesn't matter, but they are not champion runners. They are flukes and headcases ..... WEAK!