Possible Scandel Brewing?

Bleacher Report post this article recently about the number of scholarships available at Alabama for the fall of 2009. According to their math, Saban had exactly 8 open scholarships to offer to recruits this fal. Yet, a quick glance of the recruiting rankings reveals that Saban and the Tide actually signed 27 players to Letters of Intent yesterday. I admittedly to do not understand how this is possible or what loopholes there are in the system to get around the scholarship restrictions, but it seems as if Saban either is fudging numbers or is actually going to cut kids between now and the first week of fall practices in late July. I don't know if this is system wide and Saban just generates the most attention, but something doesn't feel right about this story.