I think you left off a team, the houston 4x1 would be pretty solid. Lewis, Burrel, and a few names that escape my memory at the moment, but recall them being pretty solid.
>Believe me I thought of both Gaines 9.3 and
>Clayton 9.3 but Davis did run a 9.2....right?>
No, Davis was a 9.3 guy, inferior to the 10.1s of Gaines and Clayton. But in talking these hypothetical things, one has to do more than just add up PRs. Gaines and Clayton were both WR-type indoor sprinters, making them perfect leadoff guys for a relay.
But since you later brought up Ray Norton, neither of them now makes the team. Norton, Smith, Smith & Carlos, nobody touches them.
Just because the 1967 version of McCulloch to Kuller to . . . "Killer" . . . to Miller ran an eye-popping 38.6, one must give the nod to the the prophylatics --- sorry, the Trojans.
Pretty sure you've got to include the GaTech team ahead of many of these.
GaTech (Derek Mills, Derrick Adkins, Antonio McKay, Angelo Taylor)
You've got a 44.13 guy in Mills, former WR indoors in McKay, and the last 2 Oly golds in 400 hurdles. Plus Taylor ran 43.9 at NCAAs, that doesn't happen too often.