NCAA Recruiting Scoop

Pittsburgh head coach Dave Wannstedt seems to be onto something. Apparently, you can lose a lot of games during the regular season and beat your hated division rivals that are about to go to the BCS Championship Game and all of those earlier losses are forgiven.

What’s more, the recruits will be knocking down your door. Seriously, though, you’ve got to think that win over West Virginia was the best thing to happen to Panthers recruiting in a long time.

Jarred Holley, a 5-foot-10, 175 pound cornerback from Easton, Pennsylvania (Easton High School) has verbally committed to play for the Pittsburgh Panthers and head coach Dave Wannstedt in 2008.

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As a junior in high school, Holley managed 54 tackles and nine interceptions. That’s right—we said nine! In addition, he put together the same amount of tackles as a senior.

Thing is, no one threw at him in 2007. Probably a smart idea.

Altogether, this netted the four star cornerback inclusion in the Rivals 250 of 2008. Holley is also considered to have the fifth best ball skills of all cornerbacks in the nation. Further, people are calling him the 10th best player coming out of the entire state of Pennsylvania—which means something when it’s that state we’re talking about—and the 13th best cornerback in the nation, period.

In the end, Holley chose the Pittsburgh Panthers over the Stanford Cardinal, Virginia Cavaliers, Florida Gators, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Iowa Hawkeyes, Michigan Wolverines, and Penn State Nittany Lions.

Boy that Dave Wannstedt can recruit. First Jonathan Baldwin and now Jarred Holley. He has also proven that he can coach in the Backyard Brawl. But here’s the thing.

Now he’s got to prove that he can take the talent he’s convinced to come to Pittsburgh and win consistently. That’s the key. . . And the question.