I think that is exactly why, AZhawk87.
Instead of spending extra training hours outside of NCAA limits working out on their own, this arrangement -- which I have to assume is with Self's blessing -- gives players more supervised training opportunities. And that "outside eye" evaluating them hopefully helps them see more improvement than they would develop working out on their own after allowed hours.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"