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Fire North Carolina's Larry Fedora if he can't acknowledge dangers of CTE

SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports' Dan Wolken breaks down the burning questions heading into the 2018 SEC football season. USA TODAY

North Carolina coach Larry Fedora suggested Wednesdaythat the game of football is “under attack” due to the focus on head trauma in recent years, claimed that “our country will go down too” if football is fundamentally changed and, in a coup de grace of stupidity, said repeatedly that he didn’t believe the links between CTE and football have been proven.

No need to dance around this.