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  • #1

    1997-1998 Questions

    This weekend I stumbled across an old tape of the Iowa and Iowa St. games from 1997, both UNI wins. I was shortly after these games that I moved away from Cedar Falls and wasn't able to follow the team as closely. I had a few questions that I hope some of you could answer.

    1. How was it that this team that started 6-1 with wins over Iowa and ISU only able to win 10 games? Watching this team play these games I would have thought they were at least an NIT team?

    2. I was really impressed with a player named Chris Burdine. I didn't remember anything about him. He reminded me alot of Eric Coleman with better touch. He played really hard and hustled all over the court. An announcer said he was a 25 year old former serviceman. Anyone know anything about his background?

    3. I also was impressed with Terry Cress. He was a sophmore. I think I remember him transfering. Anyone know why and where he went?

    4. Also, was this Eldon's last year?

    Thank you for any info!
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  • #2
    Yes, it was Eldon's last team and they did kind of fall apart starting in January. Burdine was a freakish athlete that cam from JUCO. He was a hard worker and put in two pretty good years at UNI.

    Terry Cress would have been an All-Valley type point guard, until Sam Weaver ran him off during fall practice. I don't remember if he played anywhere elso.

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    • #3
      Terry Cress went on to play at South Dakota (not sure if USD or SDSU).

      Terry then became a VH1 reality show winner in Las Vegas' new "Thunder from down under" group. The show ('Strip Search') aired last year.

      Terry Cress - Panther Nation
      http://www.panthernation.com/showthread.php?t=1483
      Where are former UNI athletes and what are they doing now?

      Just a moment...
      http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Aug-05-Fri-2005/weekly/2704797.html

      "It's exhilarating," says Terry Cress. "You just can't get over the feeling. They're here to watch us, and we're gonna give 'em a great show."
      The Lord reigns, let the earth be glad; let the distant shores rejoice, clouds and thick darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne. Fire goes before Him, and consumes his foes on every side; His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees and trembles; the mountains melt like wax before the Lord of all the earth. The heavens proclaim His righteousness and all peoples will see His glory.

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      • #4
        Wow, PTTB. Leave it to you to find out that info!

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        • #5
          I remember more on Terry Cress --

          We were down in Des Moines to play at Drake and I was sitting right behind the team bench -- Weaver called down to Cress to go into the game, didn't like that Cress had been talkin to the player next to him and that he'd had a smile on his face -- accused him of not paying attention to the game and then at half time told him to put his street clothes back on and that he wouldn't be playing anymore. And that was the last we saw of the kid.
          "...the Northern Iowa men's basketball team reached the ultimate highs before hitting a devastating low. Unexpected success, followed by unimaginable failure. And they owned it -- all of it -- for the world to see. Like men. Like leaders. Like champions -- in a way no tournament bracket could ever define."

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          • #6
            There were some strange moments during his tenure.
            The Lord reigns, let the earth be glad; let the distant shores rejoice, clouds and thick darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne. Fire goes before Him, and consumes his foes on every side; His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees and trembles; the mountains melt like wax before the Lord of all the earth. The heavens proclaim His righteousness and all peoples will see His glory.

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            • #7
              howd he end up doing on that show?

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              • #8
                You know what the best part about Sam Weaver was?


                Eventually, he left.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by HebrewHammer
                  howd he end up doing on that show?
                  I never saw the final outcome but I did watch quite a bit of it -- he and his brother both did pretty well I think. I always liked Terry -- it's too bad he left the way he did.
                  "...the Northern Iowa men's basketball team reached the ultimate highs before hitting a devastating low. Unexpected success, followed by unimaginable failure. And they owned it -- all of it -- for the world to see. Like men. Like leaders. Like champions -- in a way no tournament bracket could ever define."

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Newsbreaker
                    You know what the best part about Sam Weaver was?


                    Eventually, he left.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Newsbreaker
                      You know what the best part about Sam Weaver was?


                      Eventually, he left.
                      Why was it that Sam Weaver failed at UNI? When they hired him, I seem to remember thinking it was a good move, with him coaching under Tim Floyd and potentially having some ties in-state, etc. I didn't live in Iowa so I didn't have much info to base an informed impression either way. In a nutshell, what happened?

                      On a side note, having a local view of Tim Floyd's tenure with the Bulls made for a pretty interesting soap opera. Somewhat comparable to Dusty Baker's situation with the Cubs now.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by SteinPizza
                        Why was it that Sam Weaver failed at UNI? When they hired him, I seem to remember thinking it was a good move, with him coaching under Tim Floyd and potentially having some ties in-state, etc. I didn't live in Iowa so I didn't have much info to base an informed impression either way. In a nutshell, what happened?

                        On a side note, having a local view of Tim Floyd's tenure with the Bulls made for a pretty interesting soap opera. Somewhat comparable to Dusty Baker's situation with the Cubs now.

                        In my opinion, Sam Weaver failed at UNI because he stopped recruiting when he became the head coach of the Panthers. At Iowa State he was a great recruiter for Coach Tim and the Cyclones and was known in the recruiting circles as a great recruiter but when he became the UNI head coach, the one thing he was great at, recruiting, he stopped doing and I think it eventually cost him his job at UNI. Coach Weaver always treated me well and talked confidentially with me about some things and I think he would even say today and he realized in the end that one of the mistakes he made while the head man at UNI was that he stopped going out and recruiting players and relied solely on his assistants.

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                        • #13
                          http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Sports/156852/


                          BTW, Sam has now signed on to coach at Henderson State. Just a month ago, he signed to coach at a high school in southern Illinois.
                          The Lord reigns, let the earth be glad; let the distant shores rejoice, clouds and thick darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne. Fire goes before Him, and consumes his foes on every side; His lightning lights up the world; the earth sees and trembles; the mountains melt like wax before the Lord of all the earth. The heavens proclaim His righteousness and all peoples will see His glory.

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                          • #14
                            My only Sam Weaver experience was at a UNI football game. This was the year when UNI played Western Illinois the last game of the year and needed a win to get in the playoffs. UNI got down by a couple scores and mounted a comeback, but WI's punter came in to make a 50+ yard field goal at the end of the game to win it.

                            Anyway, Weaver was in the row behind me and was so overwhelmingly negative and pessimisstic I considered off-ing myself. The other b-ball coaches sitting next to him were into the game and cheering on the Panthers. Weaver just kept saying the game was long since over and UNI had fallen on it's face in a big game. I remember thinking that if this guy quit this easily with his own team, he'd suck the life out of them by Xmas.

                            Apparently that was a pretty representative experience.
                            Winning is more fun than losing.

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