What lessons has Baylor learned?

"Her taking office will help us pivot from focusing on our Title IX response to a growing recognition that Baylor is serious and has put in place the most comprehensive response to sexual violence in higher education," he said.

Two other reviews are specifically targeting athletics. The NCAA is conducting interviews with current and former Baylor employees and alleged victims, sources told ESPN's Outside the Lines, and the questions pertain to whether former student-athletes received improper benefits, which are typically thought of as cash or falsified grades. In this case, illegal benefits have also been described as possibly receiving preferential treatment when it comes to avoiding or defending against prosecution for alleged misconduct.

Baylor athletic director Mack Rhoades, who was hired to replace McCaw in July, said the university has been "completely transparent and cooperative" during the NCAA's investigation. Sources told Outside the Lines that Baylor has not received a notice of allegation from the NCAA, and Rhoades said he hopes to have a better understanding of the inquiry by the end of the summer.

"If we did things wrong, we're going to handle it and we're going to face it head-on, and we're going to take care of them as we need to," Rhoades said. "For me to comment as to the outcome would probably be a little premature, but I do feel good. Let's be really clear: Not in terms of behavior outside NCAA legislation, but under the umbrella of NCAA legislation, we certainly weren't perfect, but we did a good job of following policy and procedural rules. Not perfect by any stretch, but in general a good job."

The Big 12 announced in February that it is withholding 25 percent of Baylor's future conference revenue (about $6 million this year) pending an outcome of a third-party verification review of required changes to athletic procedures and institutional governance of the athletic department. A Big 12 spokesman said this week that the third-party review is ongoing, and the league expects an update when its board of directors meets June 1-2.

Baylor has already taken steps to do a better job of vetting the background of potential recruits and transfers. Each prospect or transfer is required to answer five questions about his background, to be reviewed by Rhule and Rhoades, and transfer students are required to sign a release so Baylor officials can obtain student conduct records from their previous schools. Baylor has already been implementing criminal background checks for transfers, which will be standard for all Baylor athletes by 2018. The new procedures have already prompted the school to avoid a couple of potential recruits, Rhoades said.

Two members of Rhule's staff recently went through Green Dot training, a strategy that attempts to prevent interpersonal violence through bystander intervention, and they'll begin to educate the team's players soon. Rhoades said Baylor's athletic department is working to have another nationally recognized training program in place for all athletes by this fall.

"The hope is that instead of having a culture where if something bad starts to happen guys are cheering it on or videotaping it or whatever happens across the world, guys are intervening," Rhule said.

Rhule's beginning at Baylor came with some bumps, especially relating to coaches and appropriate behavior. In February, Brandon Washington, the strength coach Rhule brought with him from Temple, was fired after being arrested in connection with a prostitution sting. In March, the school fired DeMarkco Butler, associate director for football operations, who reportedly sent inappropriate text messages to a teenager.

Rhule said he used the swift dismissals as a lesson for the team. "If it took letting a coach go to show the guys that we weren't going to be a team that enabled bad behavior, then I had to use that," he said, adding that he publicly addressed both situations. "I made a decision, and Mack's made a decision, to not worry about perception but to worry about justice."

The job has come with a lot of difficult conversations publicly and also one-on-one with his players, talking to them in specific and sometimes graphic terms about what's acceptable sexual behavior.

"No. 1, we have to educate them about affirmative consent," Rhule said. "With a lot of kids, that's not intuitive to them at first. It's, 'Hey, she didn't say no.' No, we believe in affirmative consent. Did she say yes at every point along the way? Did she verbally say it to you? Did she lovingly say it to you? I think it's really about educating them about consent and about alcohol and drugs and their ability to affect consent."

No sexual topic is taboo in the discussions, Rhule said, including gang rapes and sharing partners. Pepper Hamilton's investigation revealed details of at least four alleged gang rapes, and a Title IX lawsuit filed by a former Baylor volleyball player last week alleged that gang rapes were a "bonding" experience for the players.

The woman, who said she was gang-raped by multiple players in 2012, alleged in her lawsuit that the football team had "already developed a system of hazing their freshman recruits by having them bring or invite freshman females to house parties hosted by members of the football team. At these parties, the girls would be drugged and gang-raped, or in the words of the football players, 'trains' would be run on the girls."

"The conversations I'm having," Rhule said, "are about risky behaviors like group sex and sharing partners. I can't impose morality on people, but I can talk about what I believe. But more importantly, this is what's acceptable and this is what's not. This is what's going to get you in trouble and this is what the reality of the law is."

One year after the public learned the horrific details of Baylor's sexual assault scandal, the program's transformation is only beginning.

"We want our student-athletes to be voices and speak out against it and what's right and wrong," Rhoades said. "I think we can use that because we're under the microscope, but also in the spotlight. We can use that to be a leader to say, 'Hey, this is not acceptable behavior, period, and if you choose to do that you're not going to be here, period.' I don't care how many touchdowns you scored or how many baskets you made. There are just certain behaviors that we're not going to tolerate here, and there won't be any second chances."

Murff said that Baylor is "addressing the topic of sexual violence with all of our students, not just football players." About 10 percent of the sexual violence cases at Baylor have involved student-athletes, based on counts from various sources.

A year ago, Pepper Hamilton gave Baylor 105 recommendations stemming from its investigation. Two weeks ago, the university announced that the "infrastructure and foundation are in place" for all of them. Murff pointed specifically to the addition of trauma-informed counselors, the creation of an addiction recovery center and the modernization of the campus police force.

"The topic of sexual assault is front and center at Baylor," Murff said. "It is being dealt with openly at every level."