Ohio State has its subsequent offensive coordinator, and certain play caller, in Invoice O’Brien, a number of program sources confirmed to The Athletic. Information of the hiring was first reported by ESPN.
With O’Brien, coach Ryan Day has completed Ohio State’s offensive employees as soon as once more. O’Brien, who has an intensive historical past with quarterbacks from his time within the NFL, at Alabama and even way back to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Georgia Tech in 2001, will take over the identical function for Ohio State. Which means he’ll change QB coach Corey Dennis, whose contract expires on Jan 31.
What does this imply for Day?
The time for Day as a play caller has come to an finish. O’Brien is anticipated to take over play calling for Ohio State as Day steps again right into a CEO function of this system.
Day hinted at eager to take a step again this offseason when he named Brian Hartline the offensive coordinator they usually spent a lot of the offseason evaluating if that’s the way in which the workforce wanted to go. Although Hartline had enter throughout the week and on recreation days, Day by no means gave up play calling to the first-time offensive coordinator. It’s nonetheless unknown whether or not O’Brien will share the coordinator title with Hartline, however the addition of O’Brien is supposed to take a few of the accountability off of Day’s shoulders.
O’Brien has made loads of stops in his profession. He’s been an offensive coordinator in faculty and the NFL and a head coach at Penn State from 2012 to 2013 earlier than shifting on to the Houston Texans from 2014 to 2020.
He most lately served because the offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots, this previous season. Earlier than that, he spent two years as Nick Saban’s offensive coordinator, the place he led Alabama in 2021 and 2022 to 2 top-10 nationwide finishes in scoring and averaged greater than 470 yards per recreation in each seasons.
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