This story on Holley announcing for Pitt, also includes some video of the announcement.

“After talking with my family and a lot of the people that I trust in the community, I’ve decided that this fall I will be attending the University of Pittsburgh,” Holley said, breaking out in a smile, something his coach Steve Shiffert said Holley had not done in a while.

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An exhausting recruiting process that included 30 scholarship offers was narrowed to Iowa, Virginia and Pittsburgh by Holley, who was visited one last time at Easton by Panthers’ head coach Dave Wannstedt on Tuesday.

“I was hoping he didn’t have him come all the way out here to say no,” Easton coach Steve Shiffert said.

Part of the appeal for Holley was the fact that it isn’t in the middle of nowhere.

“I kind of had a good feeling about Pitt when I visited there last summer,” Holley said. “Then when I came back out for my official visit, I got to see the city at night, got to know the coaches better and got a better feel for the school. Basically, I just like everything about it.”

Holley said one of the main reasons he likes Pitt is because it’s in the city.

“There is a lot to do in a city like that. A lot of stuff going on,” Holley said.

Some pressure from family helped too.

Almost everyone has one, and Frank Varju happily admits to playing the role of Jarred Holley’s crazy uncle.

So when Holley returned from an official recruiting trip to the University of Pittsburgh on the weekend before Christmas, Varju, his wife, Kelly, and daughter, Marissa, all walked into the Sunday evening family dinner get-together wearing gray, navy and gold Pittsburgh Panthers sweatshirts.

“I guess if he was going to spend all that money on those three sweatshirts,” Holley said, “I had to go to Pittsburgh.”

Everyone say, “Thank you, Frank.”

According to Kevin Gorman, Pitt has only one scholarship still available and is saving it for a linebacker.

Holley is the 20th recruit in Pitt’s 2008 class, and the Panthers are reserving only one more scholarship, likely for either linebacker Steve Gardiner of Dublin (Ohio) Coffman or safety Robert Sands of Miami (Fla.) Carol City.

I have now idea how Pitt has 21 scholarships. I thought this was going to be a smaller class.