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Former Baylor Title IX coordinator: 'I was being retaliated against'

Patty Crawford, Baylor’s first Title IX coordinator, resigned earlier this week and told “CBS This Morning” the school fought her throughout her tenure in an effort to protect football players and the program’s “brand.”

"I think Baylor set me up to fail, from the beginning, in November 2014," Crawford said Wednesday. "I continued to work very hard, and the harder I worked the more resistance I received from senior leadership. I increased reports by 700 percent during my time, and it became clear that was not something the university wanted. In July, I made it clear in writing that I had concerns that the university was violating Title IX and my environment got worse.