Ohio State revenue ($500 million budget?) and renovations (the Woody Hayes Athletic Center soon, and Ohio Stadium eventually)

OSU athletic director Ross Bjork met with reporters on Thursday morning, and these are the main points you need to know.

Ohio State AD Ross Bjork gave Bill Landis a cheeky look when Bill asked if Ohio State would favor a bigger revenue share for athletes. The answer is definitely yes. (Photo by Doug Lesmerises)

COLUMBUS — Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork met with reporters (I counted 27 media members in the room) for more than an hour Thursday morning. The impetus was a summer state-of-the-department address on Ohio State athletics and everything happening in college sports.

It was held in the Jack Nicklaus Museum, a place on campus that once upon a time hosted our regular weekly coach news conferences. For those of us who have covered this team for 15 years or more, the last time we could remember being in there for a media event was the infamous March 2011 news conference with Gordon Gee, Gene Smith and Jim Tressel, in the midst of Tattoogate, when Gee, as university president, said he just hoped Tressel wouldn’t fire him.

That was not a harbinger of things to come Thursday. The building isn’t cursed. There were two major paths of Bjork topics — those specific to what’s happening at Ohio State, and those addressing the broader context of how Ohio State views the changing college landscape.

Bill and I talked about both (big-picture first) on this episode of The Bill and Doug Show. But I wanted distill the most salient Ohio State bits of information for you here. Away we go.