Purdue Football: CB Sean Collins Had to Be Dismissed After Battery Arrest

According to ESPN, Purdue has bid a hasty farewell to walk-on cornerback Sean Collins on Tuesday after Collins was arrested on multiple charges at an area bar over the weekend. Collins was arrested for public intoxication (bad), resisting arrest (really bad), and battery after hitting a 22-year-old woman and hospitalizing her (completely unacceptable).

Danny Hope said on Tuesday that the team would reevaluate Collins' status with the team if the status of the charges changes, but reading the description of the incident, it's awfully hard to believe there's any reason to reconsider Hope's decision. Via WBIW.com:

Investigators say he punched a 22-year-old woman in the face, knocking her out and leaving her with a black eye.

Fire crews driving by witnessed the attack. One of the firefighters jumped out and held Collins down until police arrived on the scene.

The woman was treated and released from St. Elizabeth Central Hospital.

There are some extremely limited scenarios in which Collins' conduct shouldn't result in jail time—perhaps the woman was brandishing a deadly weapon—but based on the facts here, it's pretty incontrovertible that Collins did in fact hit the woman and did so hard enough to knock her out.

We were disgusted by what ex-OSU LB Storm Klein did to his ex-girlfriend. This, as it stands now, is orders of multitude worse. Hope absolutely made the right decision to kick Collins off the team. And barring a wild swing of the story (one that the evidence available now doesn't even remotely suggest), Hope doesn't even owe it to Collins to leave the door open with some legal legwork to do.

We're not going to present this as an instance in a burgeoning trend of football players going wild or whatever. Man-on-woman violence isn't suddenly important because it involved a couple football players recently. It is as old as time, and it's every bit as unacceptable now as it's ever been.

If you're a man, be a man. Don't assault women. Don't joke about it to your friends and give so much as a winking impression that it can be funny. This crap has to stop, and it starts and ends with men.