Happy Monday!

Welcome back from Thanksgiving to your world of work. Some projects seem to be starting to move.
We have two more months in the fiscal year and I seem to be spot on the dollar to goal.

Christmas shopping has begun and we can help. No I'm not suggesting  1ft lenghts of 500mcm for clubs as gifts.
We at HD Supply Electrical are a full line tool distributor. Besides the Klein & FLUKE, we have Snap-on as an industrial distributor. You can buy anything you see on line at Snap-on from us. Just call me.
Cheers


ElectricAlan

HAPPY 51ST HOUSTON AUTORAMA!

Hi,
One holiday tradition here in Houston is the Autorama Hot rod show. I ran into clients and vendors at the show this year. No real surprise since this event has been popular for years.

This year was great. there was a Rider Cup winner from out of town. Also there were many locally based cars shown for the first time. The craftsmanship on display this year was phenomenal. Great paintwork and photography were on display. Darren Wenzell was showing a painting I'm temped o go back and buy. Jason Barnett was showing art and furniture. One table was made from an early Chrysler HEMI. He also had a scale P-40 Warhawk nose with shark teeth paint job that was great looking.
I only had the blackberry curve for a camera, sorry.
That can not begin to capture the quality of the work this year. I did grab a couple of snap shots to show you.
One is a pair of real Shelby GT-350s, one was a drag car all it's life and the other an SCCA road racer all it's life. Both are very original.
The next is a different take on a flame paint job. The parts of the hood not flames are cut out!

 The next is a different take on a flame paint job. The parts of the hood not flames are cut out!
Now it is off the the UH College of Technology watch party @ SRO NW Mall.
We will see out Houston Cougars take on Texas Tech in Lubbock @7p.m.
Go Coogs!
ElectricAlan

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Hi,
Despite all the problems we all faced this year with the economy, good things did come my way.
That is true both personally and professionally.
Today is a good day to thank all those that have been a part of that as clients or vendors.
Thanks friends.
Today is also the time to read what the pilgrims and George Washington said about this.
Yes I gave you homework! But I think you know the answer anyway.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Alan Powell

Saving the BIG EAST with BIG moves

Dear Commissioner Marinatto: 

Perhaps you should take the remarkable idea Larry Scott had with the PAC-16 and flip it.

This will be a mirror of the proposed PAC-16.

The BIG EAST keeps getting threats on its football AQ status.

The eight BE football schools are

W Va

PITT

USF

Rutgers

Syracuse

U Conn

Cincinnati

Louisville

This will form the BE Atlantic Div 

The BE Central Div for football will be as follows.

TCU

Houston

Rice

SMU

 UCF

Memphis

Tulane

UTEP

Now that we have shaken up the BCS football world why would it work?

Money & recruiting.

Now the Big 16 can have a conference championship game.

For the first two years we play in in NYC. We use the new stadium. Then we go on a rotation.

Jerry Jones house, the new Cowboys stadium just lost the Big 12 championship. We fill that void and he promotes the Big 16.

Then Reliant stadium.

The we go to Florida and play in Bucs stadium.

No school can have home field, just home town.

This makes money especially since we start in NYC.

The next three stops in the rotation are in the hottest football recruiting grounds in the USA.

This gives schools in both divisions easy travel except USF. That is their problem.

Each school get one school from the other div each year.

This leaves each school 3 non conf games.

We all try for one Big Six opponent. I say we avoid the Big 12 for several reasons.

First, we want to threaten them and recruit against them.

We can do that better playing the SEC, Big 10, PAC-10 & ACC.

We pick two easy non conference games since we are now in an AQ.

I would suggest we try for LSU vs Houston and Vandy vs Rice.

This is very much an urban conference. Coach Yoeman always found kids from the country that wanted to play in the big city.

Now for basketball.

We shamefully have stunk for a while, but we have to play our heritage and that we are coming back.

Also Houston has lots of  basketball talent.

We now need to rock the basketball world.

We would now have 24 teams which could be divided in tow or three divisions. We petition for two AQs in basketball like the PAC-16 was said to propose in football.

Forget about the Great Alaska Shoot Out.

We offer the Guy V Lewis challenge!

The twenty four schools of the new conference join for the the preseason event that will overshadow the preseason NIT.

Forty eight schools meet in "The Garden".

Our new conference against an equal number of opponents.

We start the challenge there in NYC while Hoffinze. is being rebuilt and then rotate. If it takes a few years, it takes a few years.

This is a huge money maker for the conference and it helps promotes UH. It shows the injustice of  Guy not being in the hall of fame without us whining.

For the first year we celebrate the life of John Wooden as well.

He and Guy brought college basketball to TV.

This is a great angle.

Yes this entire play would be stronger if we could lure in Kansas and K-State in lieu of UTEP an Tulane. The road trips would just be more boring.

Back to recruiting, that is one of the three main payoffs for the BIG EAST.

This league is the opposite of the PAC-10 in that it has many, private schools with religious affiliations.

This will help those schools recruit against ND in TX and FLA.

It will help them all recruit in in TX & FLA, but for the other Roman Catholic schools this is an extra bonus. of course being in an AQ conference helps us recruit and we have something different to offer than UT or A&M.  

The benefits to the existing BIG EAST are as follows.

Survival as an AQ conference.

They are now bullet proof to any raids by the Big-10

Money

From the football championship game, the expanded membership and the Guy V Lewis Challenge.

Better recruiting in TX & FLA.

To top it all off the many of existing schools will feel that they have the upper hand.

Villanova can wait on moving up or can come now.

best regards,

Alan Powell

UH alum