Northern Illinois XC

Adrian: get off the boards fishing for compliments. You haven't done squat yet. Couldn't be more obvious. This board isn't frequented by HS girls. Actually win something first.

This isn't Adrian. I'm curious because two top girls in Illinois have committed.

Go to a school with better academics

Very good that you are researching and acting now. Contact coaches at all colleges you are interested first with the form available on their website, then a followup email / call, then possibly a (unofficial) visit later.

If you are below about 5:12 in the 1600, 18:00 at the state XC meet and above 27 on the ACT then you will have many options.

You can always check recent past XC / T&F results for 2016 seniors and were they went, cross referencing results with MilesplitIL College Commitments.

http://www.ihsa.org/SportsActivities/GirlsCrossCountry/StateSeriesInformationResults.aspx

Other way to save money beyond in-state tuition or athletic scholarship -

http://msep.mhec.org/

Athlete or not, use caution when considering public 4 year institutions in Illinois because of the dire financial / political situation.

Plain and simple Myers is a snake, stay far away!

Stay away from Northern IL. Coach is the worst. I took a campus visit and I was done after the first 30 seconds I met with the coach, Adrian.

Northern Illinois cross team was ruined by Myers. Stay away from that sh!t show.

Myers is the man. Everyone who is hating on him is just jealous.

Jealous of what? He seriously hasn't done anything!

He hasn't done anything! End of argument.

Before Myers NIU was consistently placing 11th or 12th in the MAC. Since he's been coach they have placed 9th and then 7th last year. Don't see how's that nothing.

Seventh place? Wow. Congrats. Moving up a couple of spots could also be attributed to the other schools doing poorly just as much as NIU doing better.

Win something. Consistently win. The. You will get the respect you beg for.

You're so right teams go from 12th place to 1st in their conference all the time! No team ever slowly builds up. I mean heck last time NIU got 7th was in 1981 that wasn't too long ago. Just look at the MAC results page and you can tell he's making a difference.

Who would even know that stat or know where to find it except Adrian himself. Amigo: 7th sucks. You have improved a crappy program to the level of "less crappy". That's all.

He hijacked his best runner from his former employer and has seen the only other good runner at NIU go backwards since he's been there. Social media hype does not = results.

It's called google.

Really how are you coming to the conclusion that Myers is a bad coach if he has done nothing but improve the NIU program. You have no stats to back yourself. You're feeling towards him must be personal. Did he dust you in a 800 back in the day or something.

That does stink that the former best runner has been on the decline but shit happens. However, the RESULTS show that they have improved in there confrence since his arrival.

Nobody has said that he is a bad coach. Frankly we won't care enough. What we are saying is that he has not done anything to prove he's a great coach. He may be a good coach. But he needs to do way more to earn the respect he begs for.

You're right he's just been called the worst and a snake. Also I'm not begging for anything. Is that your catch phrase or something. I'm just stating facts. To get bad to the original post though Adrian is a good coach that is on track to be great. I ran under him for a year and wish I could have run for him long. Overall great guy on track to be a great coach.