But it should be easily enough if a jury looked at it rationally.
Oh, I don't know. Were I one of these young men, I might consider the destruction of my reputation for the forseeable future to be worth enough to cause the University some pain. Five million from an insurance payout won't do that. I'd shoot for five percent of the University endowment, and after paying the lawyers I'd give 90 percent of what was left to women's outreach and charities.
The point is not to get rich, but to ensure that no school ever again does what Duke did to these three.