Put Adam DePietro down for an emphatic no.

DePietro, a Lancaster Catholic grad, is a Northwestern football player. He is among roughly 75 scholarship Wildcats who will vote to unionize Friday. The historic vote is at the center of an evolving national story of reform in college sports.

The vote was authorized by National Labor Relations Board Regional Director Peter Sung Ohr in February, when he ruled that scholarship college football players can legally be considered employees of the University.

“Initially, I was on board,’’ DePietro said by telephone from Evanston, Ill. Wednesday night. “I’m in favor of some changes in the NCAA, and it seemed like this would be a good way to go about it.’’

DePietro said weeks of meetings and discussions swayed him and, he believes, the majority of his teammates.

“Once I really started to think about the reality of a union,’’ DePietro said, “I realized it wasn’t the unions against the NCAA. It was the union against Northwestern, and I don’t think we need any changes at Northwestern. We get everything we need and everything we want.’’

The NLRB ruling applied only to Northwestern, a private school. State schools, or state-supported schools like Penn State, could have a different legal status, and won’t be immediatewly affected by Friday’s vote.

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A football scholarship at Northwestern is a four-year agreement. At most of the 125 schools that play major-college football, it’s a one-year deal renewed annually.

A redshirt sophomore offensive lineman, DePietro lives in a dormitory and uses a university meal plan. Next school year, he plans to move off-campus, and will receive $1,600 a month for housing, food and incidental expenses.

“I think we’re compensated enough,’’ he said. “I think we have enough things already in place, and (head coach Pat Fitzgerald) has been a huge advocate for student athletes.’’

DePietro said he first heard of the possibility of unionizing at a team meeting when the players returned from holiday break in January.

Since then there are have a number of players-only meetings, some of which because heated.

“They were also really educational,’’ DePietro said. “I feel like we haven’t exhausted all our other options for changing things short of a union, and there’s a chance that it could be a divider within the team, and between the team and the coaches.

“Some (of my teammates) are still very firm yes votes, but overall, my gut tells me it’ll go no.’’