Isn't there an SEC rule that you can only take 25 players?

You can back-count. Tennessee didn't have a big class last year, with the coaching change....

You can take 25 counters per year (signing day to signing day). Guys who enroll early can be counted toward the current class or they can count towards last year's signing class if and only if there is room on the 85 and there are available spots in the 25 from last year's class.

A lot of teams will run up against the 85 when trying to sign more. That's why you have to process.

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If someone has quit or transferred, creating an opening from last year they can fill.

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That's possible in the 85, but not in the 25.

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Some can get a scholly from baseball or track

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If you are on a track or baseball scholarship you are not eligible to play football. If you play football and have a scholarship, it must be for football.

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Some can get a scholly from baseball or track,,

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Naw dawg. I mean, I guess they can, but then they become strictly a baseball or track team member. If they're on scholarship and on the football team, they count against the limit.

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if someone has quit or transferred, creating an opening from last year they can fill.

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only if they "quit" before they ever showed up on campus. For example, Brazil leaving doesn't create an opening in last years class for an early enrollee. It does help, as does any attrition, in regards to the 85 player limit though.

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go greyshirt if a parent pays tuition the first year

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greyshirt is more or less a handshake agreement that the team will save a scholarship for said player in the next recruiting class.

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Some can get a scholly from baseball or track,

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if a player is on any type of scholarship, even academic, it counts as a football scholarship if he gets any playing time at all. Can't walk on and be on any type of scholarship if you get in for even one play.

well to be fair, I'm not the end all be all when it comes to this matter, that's just my interpretation of the rules from what I gleaned from the internet. Take what I said with a grain of salt.