Charlotte, N.C. -- North Carolina head coach Larry Fedora shook the college football community Wednesday with a rant that included his belief that football may not be connected to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease commonly called CTE.
Speaking at the ACC Kickoff event on Thursday, Syracuse football head coach Dino Babers and senior quarterback Eric Dungey made it clear that they have no such uncertainties.
"Obviously, CTE is real," Babers said. "There's proof. There's evidence of that."
Said Dungey: "There's medical evidence that shows that CTE and repeated blows to the head are correlated.