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Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney was not pleased with the prospect of college athletes transitioning from amateur to school employee status.

Last month, a federal judge blocked the NCAA from enforcing laws that ban using NIL money to attract athletes. The judge concluded that the NCAA’s rule certainly violates federal antitrust law and hurts athletes.

The first step towards college athletes becoming employees was taken prior to the ruling, when a National Labour Relations Board regional official ruled that Dartmouth men’s basketball players are employees, potentially clearing the way for an election to form the first student-athlete labour union.

Swinney disagreed with the model.

“The best thing for coaches in the kind of world we’re in right now is for (athletes) to be employees,” Swinney told the Post and Courier last week. “The worst thing for the athletes is to be employees. We don’t want that world for our 18-year-olds. “I believe we have lost our way.”