New Northwestern athletic director Mark Jackson says he had never visited the school before he was hired last week.
Mark Jackson had never visited Northwestern. By the time he first stepped foot on campus, he had already agreed to leave Villanova and take over as the school's new athletic director.'My wife, she was like, 'Aren't you gonna go visit the campus?'' Jackson said Tuesday, less than a week after he left Villanova to take the job sight unseen. 'I was like I don't need to, I've talked to enough people that said this place is just off the charts.
'As I mentioned to my staff this morning, doing the right thing isn't always easy, but it's always right,' Jackson said. 'We're gonna commit to that. Are we gonna be perfect? Probably not. But we're gonna proactively educate around the pitfalls around everything, whether that's academic integrity, you look at gambling to what consent means on a college campus.
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