There could not have been a more divided response to a new offensive coordinator hire than Bill O’Brien. It’s like a hire that was engineered in a lab to split the Ohio State fanbase directly in half.

And I find myself in a very awkward position – right in the middle.

On one hand, this is not a terribly groundbreaking or exciting hire in the sense that he’s not exactly a young, rising star with cutting-edge ideas or approaches to the game that is going to fundamentally change much of what…