Interested in gifting my BU DVD collection to a caring fan

[Tommy]

Yes, for us old-timers who were there in 1982, it was a great team to watch and follow. If not for a disappointing upset to ISU in the 1982 MVC Tournament, I believe Bradley would have gone a long way in the NCAA Tournament.
Bradley should have been given an at-large bid anyway as the winner of the MVC regular season. But, Dave Gavitt, who was the chairman of the selection committee made sure that the Big East got their top 4 teams in the 48-team tournament, while only the MVCT winner got an invite. Gavitt was also the AD of a Big East school (Providence) and would later become the Commissioner of the Big East
The snub might have given the Braves a little more reason to win the NIT. They easily breezed through the competition winning the 5 games en route to the NIT championship by an average of 13 points, including a 95-81 spanking of a very good Syracuse team on their home court, the Carrier Dome, where they rarely lost.
Ironically, when Dick Versace complained publicly about Gavitt's selection committee's favoritism in picking 4 Big East teams and snubbing the MVC Champion Braves, Gavitt reportedly said the Big East's 5th place team, Syracuse, was in line to get a bid ahead of Bradley.

I have tapes of those NIT games and have watched them several times.

If we had gone to the NCAA tournament that year, you would have seen BU vs. NC with Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins. And BU would have won!

[dawgs123]

I agree, BU had a very good team that year but I think that they underachieved. By that I mean that there were games that they coasted/ did not give enough effort. If they would have, they would have been guaranteed a NCAA bid.

[algotrader]

Please digitize them in the highest possible quality. I would even digitize it and then send it off to the Internet Archive. They are very interested in collections like this.

[MacabreMob]

Yes, for us old-timers who were there in 1982, it was a great team to watch and follow. If not for a disappointing upset to ISU in the 1982 MVC Tournament, I believe Bradley would have gone a long way in the NCAA Tournament.
Bradley should have been given an at-large bid anyway as the winner of the MVC regular season. But, Dave Gavitt, who was the chairman of the selection committee made sure that the Big East got their top 4 teams in the 48-team tournament, while only the MVCT winner got an invite. Gavitt was also the AD of a Big East school (Providence) and would later become the Commissioner of the Big East
The snub might have given the Braves a little more reason to win the NIT. They easily breezed through the competition winning the 5 games en route to the NIT championship by an average of 13 points, including a 95-81 spanking of a very good Syracuse team on their home court, the Carrier Dome, where they rarely lost.
Ironically, when Dick Versace complained publicly about Gavitt's selection committee's favoritism in picking 4 Big East teams and snubbing the MVC Champion Braves, Gavitt reportedly said the Big East's 5th place team, Syracuse, was in line to get a bid ahead of Bradley.

I have tapes of those NIT games and have watched them several times.

I just want to say.... There was a website a few years ago. It had TONS of data and info. And I subscribed to it for a couple years. Unfortunately, something happened and it went down and all the data was lost off the server or something.

Anyway - it had RPI data all the way back to BEFORE the 1982 season.

I can't recall exactly, But Bradley was like 47th that year in an MVC rated like 14th that year. Bradley did NOT have a good resume to get into the NCAA as an at-large based on looking at data from the RPI - a tool which was used for years to aid in the selection process.

Anyway - after I saw that and looked other teams in the 1982 RPI.... we did NOT get snubbed.

Don't misunderstand me - I think we woulda been competitive and won a game or two.... or more in the NCAA just like everybody else.

My point is, Bradley didn't schedule well enough that year and do well enough with the schedule they had to get attention for an at-large bid.

[Da Coach]

Here is a website with archives of RPIs back to 1980. You can set search parameters at the bottom of the page.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/ncaa/files/rpiarchive/list.html

And here is the final RPI from 1982-

http://s3.amazonaws.com/ncaa/files/rpiarchive/archive/1982%20Final%20RPI.pdf

So I did a little research...
The final RPI has Bradley at RPI of 32. Boston College was #20, which is expected, since they played in a much stronger conference and would have had a far better Strength of Schedule. The difference between Bradley (#32) and Boston College (#20) is enough to concede that BC did deserve an at-large bid.
However, there were quite a few teams that year that had worse RPIs than Bradley's #32, and were given at-large bids over BU.
Some that I can determine were at-large teams in 1982, and were not conference winners -Tennessee #33, VCU #36, USC #37, Iowa #41, Indiana #45, Ohio State #48, Pittsburgh #55, and maybe others.
So if RPI was a key factor, maybe it's reasonable that one could believe Bradley was snubbed by the selection committee.

[MacabreMob]

That's interesting. I'm trying to navigate the search. Not getting info. No worries. It isn't really important to me.

From the site I used years ago, I felt comfortable and confident with the info.

But so... even if you wanna say a team RPI of 32 in a Conference rank that is in the teens.... back when the NCAA Tourney only had 48 teams... so not many at-large berths. I still feel Bradley was NOT snubbed.

Would we have been competitive? Would we win a game? Multiple games? Yes Yes and Yes

But - I don't "feel" snubbed anymore after seeing some data and info.

[Bradleyfan1]

Are these going to be available online soon?

[Dub]

Are these going to be available online soon?

we do not have a date target yet, but research is being done, and plans are being formed.

[Tommy]

we do not have a date target yet, but research is being done, and plans are being formed.

[Tommy]

Any tech geeks out there that know anything about video converters? I'm using Movivo Video Converter 21 Premium, but when I convert to MP4 format, the video and audio don't sync up. I've tried to find a solution online with no luck and I'm working on an imac, not a PC.

[Buesch N Chips]

Any tech geeks out there that know anything about video converters? I'm using Movivo Video Converter 21 Premium, but when I convert to MP4 format, the video and audio don't sync up. I've tried to find a solution online with no luck and I'm working on an imac, not a PC.

The one I had the most success with was called something like IMTOO DVD to DIVX converter. Sometimes when they don’t sync up it’s a computer issue.

[Tommy]

The one I had the most success with was called something like IMTOO DVD to DIVX converter. Sometimes when they don’t sync up it’s a computer issue.

Thanks B & C! I've got a brand new imac and it's far from low end, so hopefully it's not the computer causing the issues. I did get some support from the software I'm using and they gave me a fix, but the sound is still off for a while, though oddly enough it ends up catching up by game time, so I'm very confused. I"ll look into that IMTOO you mentioned. Thanks for the tip!