What motivated SWAC to move its football title game to Houston? The commissioner explains

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Southwestern Athletic Conference Commissioner Duer Sharp said today Birmingham's inability to "control the controllable" was a key factor in the SWAC moving its football championship game to Houston.

The conference held its football Media Day at the Birmingham Marriott and representatives of the 10 member schools met with an eye toward the title game again being at NRG Stadium.

Asked what Birmingham could have done to keep title contest between the East and West division champs, Sharp said there was little else the city could have done.

"One thing I know was consistent was (league chancellors and presidents) wanted to take the weather out of the equation," he said. "It was always that, what happens when you wake up Saturday morning and it's raining? In Birmingham, there's no dome. There's nothing you could do."

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