Should college athletes be employees of their universities?

Has anyone thought through what employment actually looks like across 50 states? A unionized team at a private school in New Hampshire bargaining under federal labor law, while the public school across town answers to a state labor board with completely different rules. Strikes before rivalry week. Players as W-2 employees filing taxes in six states from away games. Walk-ons: are they employees too, or second-class citizens in their own locker room? What about DIII, where nobody gets a dime? The people pushing this talk like it's a light switch. It's fifty different labor regimes, Title IX litigation, tax consequences for teenagers, and collective bargaining with 18-year-olds who change schools every spring. I'm not saying the current system is just. I'm saying the replacement has to be designed, not declared, and "make them employees" is a slogan, not a plan.