Baylor University's former Title IX coordinator said a top school official referred to women who made allegations of sexual assault as having mental illness, a claim he has denied.

Patty Crawford made the claim about Reagan Ramsower, Baylor's senior vice president for operations, during an interview on 60 Minutes Sports on Showtime that aired Tuesday.

She said the statement came during an emergency meeting in former university President Ken Starr's office after football player Sam Ukwuachu was convicted of sexual assault in September 2015.

"It seemed like it came from the fact that one of the women ... was suicidal," Crawford said. "I said, 'No ... the incidents themselves have caused traumatic response in these women. They are not mentally ill.'"

Ramsower denied making the comment.

Crawford also said Ramsower "ranted and railed" at her in July after she wrote a 16-page memo detailing concerns that her authority was being compromised even after the university had indicated it was trying to make changes in the wake of a series of sexual assault claims.

She said he told her to only talk to him in person or by phone. Ramsower has called the remarks a "complete fabrication."

David Garland, Baylor's interim president, told 60 Minutes Sports on Showtime that he found accusations that Ramsower was impeding Crawford's efforts "to be untrue and also unfair. ... We have spared no expense in trying to address these issues."

In the 60 Minutes interview, Crawford said she was denied access to police reports detailing allegations of sexual assault and abuse. She said she received an email from a university vice president that said Waco police "do not want the actual police reports turned over to Title IX."

Ramsower said one of the reports by university police about an alleged gang rape in 2013 involving two football players stayed with the police department.

"That was a significant failure to respond by our police department. There's no doubt about it," he said.

Ramsower said the individuals within the police department who failed to notify him about these reports of sexual assaults are no longer employed by Baylor.

Garland apologized for how victims were treated.

"I am so sorry that we did not treat them right. And we will not ... let this happen again," he said.

Last week, regents said that an outside investigation of the Baylor University sexual violence scandal found 17 women who had reported sexual or domestic assaults involving 19 Baylor University athletes since 2011. Those included four reports of gang rapes.

Head football coach Art Briles was dismissed, and university president Ken Starr was demoted and later resigned.

As Title IX coordinator, Crawford was charged with enforcing federal standards meant to prevent discrimination based on gender. Her job also included investigating the sexual assault claims.

Crawford resigned last month and said she quit because Baylor had begun to stymie her recent efforts. In response to a complaint she filed, the federal government opened an investigation.

In May, university regents released a summary of an investigation by Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton, hired after juries convicted two Baylor football players of sexual assault.

The regents' summary faulted the football program for creating "a cultural perception that football was above the rules." And it criticized unnamed Baylor officials for not properly investigating students' allegations of sexual assault as required by federal law.

But in releasing only a summary of what Pepper Hamilton found, the regents did not explain exactly what Briles and Starr had done wrong. That has left many alumni wondering whether the right people have been held accountable.

As Baylor has recently hired G.F. Bunting + Co., a public relations firm that specializes in crisis management, some of the school's regents are also talking to certain national news outlets, including The Wall Street Journal.

It reported last week that regents faulted Briles for not reporting a gang rape by football players, one of four they said had occurred at Baylor since 2011.

The News last week tried to reach more than a dozen regents; no calls have been returned.

On Tuesday, Baylor publicized a new website called "The Truth" that it said was meant to provide more details about what happened at the university and "our ongoing efforts to learn from our mistakes and to make the right decisions moving forward."

Staff writer Sue Ambrose and the Associated Press contributed to this report.