If they’re getting paid, then they are pro. This will kill college football.
Also, what will this do to the schools themselves? And who is footing the bill?
And how are schools allowed to run a tax free pro league? College football is dead.
College sports as we knew it is GONE. Soon, very soon, in football, there will be no more NCAA at all.
There will be two major leagues, SEC and all the rest, and they will run it like pro football, with their own administrators, and the NCAA will be completely out of it. Schools will "balk" at first, but when they realize where all the money went they will return with hats in hand.
The other sports will continue, at first, struggling under the NCAA's umbrella, but soon Men's Basketball, Women's Volleyball will also form their own leagues, taking Footballs' lead.
Alas, "College Sports" will be GONE.