It is not the same thing. Not as many people play ProAm because there is not as much incentive as there was for rec. You can't setup games against other decent teams and even when you search at the same time you get locked into a game with 3 crappy players and 2 CPU's who are inevitably going to quit before half time, not only wasting your time but ****ing up your stats as well.
You can't even see who you are going to verse until you are locked into a game. You should at least give the option for people to back out before being locked in. I don't know why they thought this would be a good idea.
Removing rep from 5vs5, 5 minute quarter games is easily the worst change they've made for 2k16. I can only hope they add rep to ProAm walk on in the next patch and allow you to join walk on as a squad.