I'm surprised that getting these guys from 20 years ago to finish somehow helps the APR
On the one hand, it makes a lot so sense to provide an incentive for schools to encourage S-As to come back and graduate. After all, the idea behind the APR is to encourage the conditions which correlate with graduation.
On the other hand, it could obscure the current team academic performance by offsetting a current loss of an APR point with a delayed graduation point.
It is interesting that an S-A who left school before the APR was created can still earn the delayed graduation point, but again it's all about incentives.
I'm sure that GT and Coach Gregory have encouraged this as well. Pretty sure GT has had a program providing financial assistance to S-As coming back for a while.