WACO, Tex. — When Baylor University released a damning summary in May of an investigation into sexual assault accusations and convictions involving football players, the consequences were swift. The university’s president, Kenneth W. Starr, was demoted. The athletic director, Ian McCaw, resigned. The football coach, Art Briles, was effectively fired.

Amid the crisis, Baylor’s acting president, David E. Garland, named Jim Grobe, an outsider who had not coached since the 2013 season, as the Bears’ acting coach. The idea was to stabilize the university’s troubled football program, but also to win.

“When we hired our interim coach, we didn’t say, ‘Go out and win moral victories, and try to lose by not much,’” Garland said in an interview in his office last week. “When we put people on the field, we want them to win.”

Grobe has done just that. He retained all of Briles’s coaches and the system they had installed, even after the university summary acknowledged that unidentified members of the football staff had been responsible for not reporting possible sexual assaults by players.