[Roberton3]

Power 5 conference football coaches certainly talk to one another and share best practices about team discipline.  No, how Florida State treated Winston may not determine how Stanford deals with a player who runs afoul of its rules, but we can use it as a guide for how Shaw might discipline a player. 

If Stanford were just another Power 5 conference school, then you might well be correct.  It's not.  Expectations for football players' off-field conduct are rather different at Stanford than they are at Florida State, and thus discipline probably is, too.

[Roberton3]

Power 5 conference football coaches certainly talk to one another and share best practices about team discipline.  No, how Florida State treated Winston may not determine how Stanford deals with a player who runs afoul of its rules, but we can use it as a guide for how Shaw might discipline a player. 

If Stanford were just another Power 5 conference school, then you might well be correct.  It's not.  Expectations for football players' off-field conduct are rather different at Stanford than they are at Florida State, and thus discipline probably is, too.