Part of the work definition by the FLSA IIRC. This could get ugly very quickly. And put a bunch of schools out of the game
My nephew played for USU. as one of his business classes he did a labor report on the number of hours spent in practice, film, weight room, conditioning and summer workouts. His analysis was that he was paid in the form of his scholarship $0.25/hour.
If a school had to pay $25/hour or even $15/hour per kid in all sports it would kill the college sports model in all buy the richest schools
There wouldn’t be two conferences left in CFB, just one big national conference
And then scholarships might become taxable as well because schools wouldn’t pay both a scholarship and a wage