I’ve posted about this before but again, making this jump from amateur to pro is not quite as easy as snapping fingers.

First you are correct that a pro league will need rules like the nfl has to ensure parity, in other words cheating would still absolutly be possible and require enforcement.

Beyond that, the universities, especially public ones, will have some difficulty in justifying their operating a professional sports team which would have no educational function (the current argument is that the sports programs are part of the broader educational goals of the schools). This is because many state legislators may start asking a whole bunch of questions about why tax dollars are going to supporting a pro sports team and not education. These questions could also open the doors to arguments that by not being focused on educational programs, the schools cannot claim academic freedom when states want to get involved internally (often for political reasons).

Right now the system is full of shades of grey, and that’s because it serves everyone’s interest to keep it that way. Openly saying CFB is a pro sport now, threatens that. One solution might be to set up a league independent of the schools and then have the schools license their brand to these teams. But now where does that leave the NFL? Either the CFB pro league will choose to limit players to 4 years of play or the NFL now has a new competitor and they certainly won’t take that lying down. This is just one of a hundred complications, but I point it out to show that just saying CFB is pro now creates more issues than it solves.