@ joiletboy
Would I have liked for him to increase his velocity, yes.
I was also only the pitching coach for his last 3 years.
When he came in as sophomore he was in the high sixties mechanics were an issue.. We are not a huge school system and we don't have 60 + guys coming out for jv and another 40 for varsity. And a majority of our kids do not travel ball throughout the summer and fall. So we have to identify potential talent and develop it.
He made his college team and is up to 87 that has come with putting on 10 pounds and has never had an arm injury. I'll take that ALL the time.
BTW: you imply that 84 is bad. The vast majority of h.s. pitchers rarely get to 80. And many that claim to throw high 80s don't. Just a little story. My 2nd year I was scouting a team and there was a "college" scout there radar gun in hand. The senior pitcher he was looking at we had played the week before and clocked at 82 max we have a stadium gun and one of our assistants records every pitch. The kid came over to the scout and asked him how he did and he told him his average was 87. Don't believe all these mph people tell you.