I could be wrong about this but I believe a new coach's scores are attributable to whatever the previous coach was doing at a school. Groce only has a few recruits that he actually recruited at this school and the rest are TOS recruits. So the two year numbers may say more about TOS than Groce but like I said I very well could be wrong.

It's difficult to argue with the Voice of Reason.

I didn't even know that Coach was taking classes.

If they left in good academic standing and enrolled in another institution there is no penalty. We paid for all 4 years of Big Canada's ride. Horne will hurt the APR, the rest you listed will not. Not sure how Bassett shakes out with the draft situation. Suspect that since he entered the draft and somehow got eligible to come back that he will not hurt either.

I am guessing the time AB was enrolled here (Wnter 09 - Winter 10) definitely had some sort of negative effect on our academic performance.

Here is how the APR is calculated.  Based on the formula you can tell how the score would be impacted with players leaving or becoming academically ineligible.  The people that transferred would cause us to lose at least one point and 2 if the left in poor academic standing.  We didn't have any players transfer this year and only one left without graduating.  So as long as everyone remains academically eligible this season, our APR score should have a big jump!  The APR can be calculated by anyone and much like a balance sheet is the current indicator of the programs academic and retention success.  Hopefully this clears up any questions remaining.

"The APR is calculated by allocating points for eligibility and retention -- the two factors that research identifies as the best indicators of graduation. Each player on a given roster earns a maximum of two points per term, one for being academically eligible and one for staying with the institution. A team's APR is the total points of a team's roster at a given time divided by the total points possible. Since this results in a decimal number, the CAP decided to multiply it by 1,000 for ease of reference. Thus, a raw APR score of .925 translates into the 925 that will become the standard terminology."