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Nearly a month to the day after Brenda Tracy spoke in Lincoln, she'll bring her message to Waco.Tracy, who is the survivor of an alleged gang rape in 1998, will speak to newly installed Baylor head football coach Jim Grobe and the Bears on July 25, she told KETV NewsWatch 7. She has communicated with Grobe a few times over the phone -- "He's a very nice man," she said -- after Riley called and asked if he could pass along her contact information.Grobe, 64, was named acting head coach in late May after Art Briles and many others were axed. Baylor has been embroiled in a yearslong scandal over how the university handed sexual assault claims and complaints -- and has been hemorrhaging athletes who have transferred in recent weeks. Grobe reached out to Riley after Tracy spoke in Lincoln on June 22, she said, and he told Grobe the most impactful move would be to bring her to Waco."Nebraska was a great moment for me and hopefully it was the start of a movement in college sports," she said.Tracy said she was sexually assaulted by four men -- all football players, two then at Oregon State University -- while Riley was the head coach in Corvallis. His response to the incident, and Tracy dropping the charges after she received death threats targeted at her and her two sons, was a one-game suspension for his players."Prior to me coming forward with my story, I hated him and I’ve been very honest about that, that I just had this deep, deep-seated resentment and hate for him," she told KETV NewsWatch 7 in a phone interview in May. Asked if she thinks the response to sexual assault claims has improved -- or even changed -- since June 1998, Tracy doesn't mince her words: "I don't think it's changed at all. I think that it's all about money. It's about reputation. It's about recruiting. I don't think college football has changed. We hold our college football programs and the players up on a pedestal and we don't hold anyone accountable.""The Baylor scandal is a perfect example, and unfortunately I don't believe that Baylor is an exception, I believe that Baylor is the rule. My situation happened 17 years ago, but literally nothing has changed."The Baylor Athletic Department confirmed that Tracy will be speaking to the team.