So, here is what I can offer anybody on this board after watching 80+ in conference Ivy league games over 4 years....velocity matters a lot. Right directly behind velocity is pitching variety, and control. Whether you want to believe it or not, velocity is big but other parts of the total recruiting package have to be in place as well. In terms of recruiting, velocity matters, command and control matters, grades matter, ACT/SAT scores matter. Where this kind of goes down a different path is when you consider the kind of pitcher the recruit is in the eyes of the recruiting coach. The recruiting coach is trying to build a pitching staff. Coaches know what they are looking for and know what their team needs. Ivy teams have roughly 32 players (let's keep it simple). Half of the roster is pitchers..so 16. Half of those recruited pitchers will not see the field with any great number of innings in a particular year. 3-4 guys are going to be your SPs. 2 relievers and possibly a lefty specialist and a couple closers at best. So, in total 7-8 pitchers are going to be carrying the load on the mound for the year. Those are the Ivy pitchers that I (and others on this board that I know) saw the same thing in terms of velocity between SPs, relievers, specialists and closers. Most teams had a variety of those pitchers that got the bulk of the innings. My sons soph year there were: 2 freshmen SPs, 1 soph SP, and a senior SP. We also had a middle reliever, a ground ball specialist that was filthy, a lefty specialist and a freshmen closer. The higher velocity SP guys and our closer were hitting 90s routinely but they only had two pitches....they eventually would go into pro baseball. The soph SP and senior SP had 4 pitches with pinpoint control and could hit 90 if they needed to, but rarely needed to. These guys were more of your Greg Maddux, Kyle Hendricks types.
So, ask yourself when you hear these anecdotal stories....is this Ivy guy I'm hearing about finding the playing field or is this guy on the bench. For the guys on the field, is this guy a two pitch flame thrower or a 4 pitch control pitcher? If you hear about a 4 pitch flame thrower then he is probably playing for Stanford. The Ivy used to play 2 doubleheaders on Sat and Sunday and they played within a division format. Since that time, they've gone to 3 game format on fri, sat, sunday where every team plays each other 3 times. Bottom line...there are less SPs now.
Just my experience....