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Do the benefits of college football outweigh the costs?
New research from the BMJ says at least 1 in 4 former NFL players who died in recent years had CTE. Every one of those careers started with four years of college hits.
Malcolm Gladwell argues the benefits don't have to come packaged with the costs. Everything football gives its players could come from a sport that doesn't damage their brains.
Jason Whitlock argues football is the one sport that pays for all the others, and pulling it out of colleges means losing the whole system it funds.
This debate was originally recorded live on May 8, 2012
Watch the full debate below.
Do the benefits of college football outweigh the costs?
New research from the BMJ says at least 1 in 4 former NFL players who died in recent years had CTE. Every one of those careers started with four years of college hits.
Malcolm Gladwell argues the benefits don't have to come packaged with the costs. Everything football gives its players could come from a sport that doesn't damage their brains.
Jason Whitlock argues football is the one sport that pays for all the others, and pulling it out of colleges means losing the whole system it funds.
This debate was originally recorded live on May 8, 2012
Watch the full debate below.
