Months before Jameis Winston became the top pick in the N.F.L. draft, a man named Bill Miller was sitting at his breakfast table in Texas thinking about the problem of sexual assaults in sports.
Miller, an influential political consultant in Austin, had opened the newspaper on Christmas Eve and read a column about Winston, about the rape accusation against him, and about how Winston had considered his accuser’s moaning to mean that she had consented to sex.
“Moaning, that was it?” Miller said. “It just stunned me. He’s either grossly uninformed or is a bad person.