Hummm, if the Dispatch article is correct, then someone needs to contact the folks writing for the official OSU Athletic web site. They list Turano as "gone" in the 2005 Season Outlook piece from yesterday.
http://ohiostatebuckeyes.collegesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/080705aab.html
2005 Ohio State Football Season Outlook (8/7/05)
Relevent portion below
Huston's return a major plus for OSU's kicking game
The Ohio State kicking game has produced three All-Americans and two major award winners the past three years. But the Buckeyes are starting from scratch this year.
The return of place-kicker Josh Huston is a bonus. Huston, who received a medical redshirt for 2005, will handle the field goal and extra point duties. He has the daunting task for replacing two-time All-American and 2004 Lou Groza Award winner Mike Nugent, but the 6-1 senior, who lettered in 2001 and had 18 points that year, is very capable.
Redshirt freshman Ryan Pretorius will be the backup.
During Tressel's first four years at Ohio State, the Buckeyes have spent an inordinate amount of time on the punting game. They have done so with great success, leading the Big Ten in net punting each of the past three seasons.
Senior Kyle Turano is gone, so redshirt freshman A.J. Trapasso appears to be the heir apparent at punter. The 6-1, 220-pound Trapasso demonstrated a strong leg last year. But consistency, and the ability to pin opponents deep in the shadow of their own goal line, are the keys to winning the job as far as Tressel is concerned. The Buckeye coach calls the punt, "the most important play in football."
http://www.dispatch.com/football/football.php?story=dispatch/2005/08/08/20050808-C7-00.html&chck=t
Turano likely won’t punt against Miami (8/8/05)
While Kyle Turano waits to see whether the NCAA will grant him a sixth year of eligibility, it’s almost certain that he won’t be Ohio State’s punter in the season opener against Miami University on Sept. 3.
Only players who are on the official 105-man roster at the opening of preseason camp are eligible to play in the opener. Turano, the starting punter last year, was not on the roster at noon yesterday, a team spokesman said.
That means the job likely belongs to red shirt freshman A.J. Trapasso, who won it during the spring. Turano did not take part in spring drills because OSU officials weren’t sure about the merits of his appeal.
But early last week, the school’s compliance office sent the NCAA the paperwork. It outlines Turano’s bout with a leg injury his freshman season at Bowling Green in 2000 and the following year after he had transferred to OSU.
Ironically, coming out of the spring of 2004, Turano and Trapasso were expected to compete for the starting job in preseason camp. But Trapasso was cited a couple of times for underage possession of alcohol, was suspended from preseason camp and didn’t have a chance to play in the opener. He watched Turano punt all last season.
Follow the leader
Jim Heacock will take the field for the first practice this afternoon as OSU’s defensive coordinator after nine seasons as defensive line coach. Coach Jim Tressel named Heacock to the post the same day in the spring that Mark Snyder, the coordinator at OSU last year, was introduced as Marshall’s coach.
Heacock is OSU’s third different defensive coordinator in three years. Last year, Snyder replaced Mark Dantonio, who was named coach at the University of Cincinnati.
What will set Heacock apart?
"Attitude and effort are what he really stresses, and I believe that is going to be the hallmark of what our defense is this year," defensive end Mike Kudla said yesterday.
He has some insight because Heacock has been his position coach.
"He is a guy who expects a lot out of you," Kudla said. "He knows what you’re capable of, and he really expects that. He’ll tell you good job when you’ve done a good job, and he’ll tell you to pick it up when you need to do that, too.
"He has been doing this forever and we really respect him a lot. I know he’s pushed me through a lot of things and done tremendous things for me. I expect him to do the same for this defense."
One for a reason
When the Buckeyes show up at French Field House at 6:30 p.m. Thursday for the 45-minute autograph session with the public, autograph seekers will be limited to one item each for a reason: to keep the line moving.
"The biggest concern is when you have these sessions, some people bring in five or 10 items, and by the time the players sign all of those, you have turn half the people away and they don’t get anything signed due to the time constraints," sports information director Steve Snapp said. "We’re just trying to make sure everybody gets in and gets an autograph."
