Hmm, I'm puzzled by the roster listing. It shows him as a RS-Junior, yet if you look closer at his bio, it says he played mostly special teams:
2011 - saw action in 10 games in 2011, 4 solo tackles, 4 assisted tackles
2012 - saw action in 7 games, 3 assisted tackles
2013 - saw action in 7 games, 3 solo tackles, 3 assists
2014 - redshirted, transfer to Savannah State

He looks like a redshirt Senior to me, not a Junior, with 1 year to play 1.

Here is what I found on his departure from Iowa. He apparently had a problem with Halloween celebrations, and forgot to put his car in park, and it rolled...into a police car. Oops, especially since he was serving a 3 game suspension at the time.
http://tinyurl.com/kmkfaeh

I also see that he was academic all-Big Ten as a Sophomore.

Whatever gets them in the door. Could this be a Cameron Wilson recruit? Both were At Iowa, both had their issues.

This is exactly the kind of things I dislike about our program. Bringing in all these players with issues from other schools. We're just as bad as Akron and Marshall with this stuff anymore.

This seems like a strange comment, given that Collins is neither a "ringer" nor a "thug". In three years at Iowa, he only played special teams, so there is no reason to expect that he will play any more than that at Ohio, and there is no guarantee he'll even play at all. He's obviously a walkon, paying his own way.

Sure, he made a mistake, not getting his car into park on Halloween, but is that so great a mistake that no one should give him a second chance? He's a good student, academic all-Big Ten, and that is obviously the kind of student Ohio University would want to let in. If he wants to try out for football one last time before he hangs up his cleats, and wants to end his football playing days on a positive note, is that wrong?

You just lost that bet. We can start with Michael Hinton (Virginia Tech transfer) and Kyle Kozak (Indiana transfer) for starters. Hinton was arrested twice at VT before even coming to Ohio where he was eventually suspended for the final 8 games at OU and then never heard of again. And Kozak, Ha! Where to begin? Do we start with his rampage on Court Street or dive into what he did during a practice to a teammate??

Thank the Lord I'm not judged by my behavior as a college Junior!

I'm definitely going to give a Bobcat a chance.

Peace, Love, and Bobcats!
-john