I'm actually not emotional at all. I do know former rape victims, and I know that some of them have felt like they needed to go to desperate measures to be believed, as rape victims are re-victimized and not believed in most situations. There is a reason that the gross majority of rapes and assaults go unreported. I don't think it is impossible that the girl here did the same. I find it disgusting that people think, "She was drunk, she was asking for it." Or "she texted him, therefore she must have been DTF."
Fulfilling "his rights" implies that he kept the contract that he had with ISU to act as a representative and have good conduct. Those rights were reliant on that. Those were rights, additionally, that ISU gave him that nobody else offered or allowed. It's essentially saying, "Oh, hey - you said you were going to gift me $100 of your money, but you only gave me $75. I'm going to sue you for $1000." Had ISU not given him the chance to play, he wouldn't be in the D-league right now, unless there were offers from other NCAA schools that have not been reported previously. Perhaps ISU should subtract his winnings from a lawsuit from the D-league wages they've helped him earn?
Not a single person here has made the first claim I bolded. The second claim is entirely a speculation, which also cannot be proven.
If you feel so strongly about that side of the argument, then you should be upset about this whole decision on the girl's end. She completely dis-legitimized her case by technicality. Had she not done what she did, maybe we wouldn't even be having this argument and would instead be reveling about the length of Palo's term in prison. Cases like this are leaning toward the mentality you describe where the cases can't be taken seriously. Because, the simple fact is that not all of them are true. Some of them are falsified in various ways. Many of them aren't fake, are 100% legitimate, and should absolutely be taken very seriously and dealt with accordingly. However, it's no good to be creating this environmental assumption on campuses that "all men are out to rape you", or otherwise striking fear of these situations into both men and women. That's highly emotional, highly biased, and detracts validity from real events. Truth is still truth, but false cannot and should not be perceived as true, when it's actually not.
As for D-League money, who knows. It's hard to subjectively prove that his time kept off the court at ISU resulted in loss of future income. There isn't really a good way to quantify that. But, if he wants to fight to find out, so be it. After all, this is the internet and this case is not going to affect a single person in this thread. But, it is what it is.