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North Canton Hoover graduate and Ohio State linebacker Curt Lukens will miss the rest of the season. The redshirt freshman, who saw significant playing time on special teams this year, had surgery last week on his right shoulder. It has been bothering him since his senior year in high school.

Finally, against North Carolina State, Lukens was blocking on a kickoff return and the pain became unbearable. He tore his labrum and the shoulder has been popping out of joint. Doctors shaved down his C-joint, repaired his labrum and rotator cuff and removed torn cartilage and scar tissue.

Lukens will be out three to four months. He plans on seeking an NCAA medical redshirt, but isn’t sure whether he will use it.

“The plan was to try to wait through the season and get it done after the season,” Lukens said. “But after the N.C. State game, I just decided to do it now.

“I’m been thinking about it bothering me so long that every time I was playing it was on my mind. I wanted to get it done so I’m fresh for spring football. I don’t think I’ve been fresh and pain-free for a couple of years now.”

The time off from football will give Lukens more time to spend on his academics. He is taking a full load of 18 hours this quarter.
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Canton

8/11/06

OSU notebook

Friday, August 11, 2006


LUKENS CHANGE Hoover High School graduate Curt Lukens has switched positions again. He went to Ohio State as a linebacker, moved to safety and is now a wide receiver. Lukens had to make the change because of shoulder problems. “It was either change positions to wide receiver or quit playing football, and that wasn’t an option,” Lukens said. He has above-average speed and played some wide receiver at Hoover. “I was pleasantly surprised at what Curt could do,” Tressel said. “He was a pretty good high school receiver, if you remember.”

FUTURE SCHEDULES Ohio State has filled its schedule with a 12th game through 2010 with the exception of one year and Athletics Director Gene Smith said that will be filled in a matter of time. Smith did say the university is paying out record guarantees to schools, upward of $750,000, and said it wouldn’t be long before a seven-figure guarantee is paid. “We’ve got one that’s $850,000 now,” Smith said. “The Michigans, Ohio States, Tennessees and Texases of the world are all trying to get a seven- or eight-game home schedule. We’re trying to get Division I-A schools, and everybody is playing more.” Ohio State has marquee nonconference games scheduled with Southern Cal (2008-09), Miami, Fla. (2010-11), California (2012-13), Virginia Tech (2014-15) and Oklahoma (2016-17). The Buckeyes will play Army in 2009 and 2010 in a home-and-home deal. The 2009 game will be in Columbus, and the 2010 game would be in the Meadowlands or a new stadium if one is constructed for the NFL’s Giants and Jets.

NCAA GIVES CLEARANCE The NCAA approved Ohio State’s request for relief for assistant coach Joe Daniels, who is battling cancer. Daniels will not coach in two-a-day sessions. When he is off the field, the NCAA has approved offensive quality control assistant Nick Siciliano to be used as a full-time coach in Daniels’ absence. NCAA rules allow for nine full-time assistants on the field.
OPEN PRACTICE The Buckeyes will host an autograph session and open scrimmage at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium on Aug. 21. Coaches and players will sign from 7 to 8 p.m. and then hold a two-hour practice. The event is free, but there is a fee for parking. Fans are allowed to bring one item per player to be signed.
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Canton

8/12/06

SPORTS SPOTLIGHT: Lukens shoulders the pain, plays on with Buckeyes

Saturday, August 12, 2006


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COLUMBUS In the middle of the night, when Curt Lukens is doing nothing more than snoring, the painful reminder of how fragile his football career is stings down his arm.

It can be either arm.

His shoulders pop out of place during sleep. Both of them.

But Lukens is the kind of player who won’t be carried off the field and won’t have a doctor tell him when his football career is over. The Hoover High School graduate will walk away from the game at Ohio State on his own terms and under his own power.

So Lukens changed positions. The 21-year-old moved from safety to wide receiver because both shoulders are chronically injured. He has so many torn tendons in them, he just refers to it as “torn stuff.”

“The shoulder will come out of place at like 3 o’clock in the morning when I roll over in my sleep,” Lukens said. “I’ll wake up, look over and see my shoulder down toward my elbow. I get up, hold the door knob, and you know, give it a jerk. Usually on the second or third jerk, it goes back in.”

Pain?

Remember Mel Gibson in “Lethal Weapon”?

“It’s one of the most painful things ever when it goes out of place,” Lukens said. “When it goes back in, it feels like nothing happened.”

Just the other day during practice, Lukens caught a pass and fell on the ground. He tricked team doctor and told him the air was “knocked out of my gut.”

Instead, he sucked it up and quietly put his shoulder in place.

“It only slid out a little,” Lukens said.

Today is the first day of full-contact for the Buckeyes. Ohio State will hit the practice field and have its first “hoot-n-holler drill.” It’s a savage beating.

Lukens is a smart kid. He is on schedule to graduate in December, which would be the middle of his fourth year in Columbus.

He knows his football-playing days are numbered. He also knows he loves the game.

When doctors and coaches offered the idea of being a player-coach, Lukens scoffed at it. He wants to wear a football uniform.

“They gave me that option,” Lukens said. “They said if the shoulders keep coming out, four or five years down the road I might not be able to pick up my kids. After spring football, I sat down and thought about that. I took the pros and the cons of both situations. I thought what would life be like without playing football. I couldn’t live that life.

“I need the discipline that football brings. I need the work ethic that football teaches me. I need the time management that football forces me to use.”

So he moved to wide receiver.

And he is impressing Head Coach Jim Tressel. Lukens has speed and good hands.

He was recruited to Ohio State as an athlete more than for one specific position. Tressel thought then Lukens could fit in at linebacker, safety or wide receiver.

“I ended up playing all three,” he said. “I’m versatile enough to make the transition.”

During the team’s picture day, Lukens had fun with teammates. Most of playing football at Ohio State is the relationships players make.

Life without those relationships would be tough, if not impossible.

“I talk a lot of trash to the defensive backs now,” Lukens said. “I’ve been with them the last two years, and we always get on each other now. It’s a lot of fun. In the one-on-one periods, I’m going against my brothers the last two years, and now I’m trying to whip their butts.”

That is what football is for Curt Lukens.

It’s fun. It’s discipline. It’s camaraderie.

It’s his life.

“As long as the doctors don’t physically remove me from the field, carry me off and lock me in a cage, I’m going to keep plugging away everyday and hoping for the best,” Lukens said. Reach Repository sports writer Todd Porter at (330) 580-8340 or e-mail: [email protected]




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LUKENS HURT Hoover High School graduate Curt Lukens was on the Buckeye sideline wearing his jersey and sweat pants. Lukens re-injured his shoulders. Lukens moved from defensive back to wide receiver this offseason in an effort to preserve his career, which has been hampered by shoulder injuries.

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I wish Curt the best of luck with his surgery. He seems like a gutsy kid who really loves football and being a Buckeye, and I always like having kids like that around.
 
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Lukens gives up playing career - and the nights without sleep
Thursday, April 12, 2007
SPORTS SPOTLIGHT
TODD PORTER

COLUMBUS Ever since Curt Lukens was old enough to run and hit like he was a brick wall with legs, he played football. He played it all the way through high school at North Canton Hoover.

Back then, he played through shoulder problems. He was good enough to earn a full scholarship to Ohio State. The problems never went away.

But football has.

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