Last weekend was a recruiting bonanza. President's Day is always that way. Everyone, college coaches included, is looking for an excuse to go somewhere warm.

The conventional wisdom goes something like this, "I go to a tournament and college coaches watch me play. If they like me, they'll contact me." Don't listen to that line. The silence after a tournament can be deafening, and often demoralizing.

The thing is, the lack of contact is really more about college coaches than it is about you. It's a huge headache for coaches to digest all the information from a tournament, which can take weeks to process. Inevitably, players the coach liked get lost in the shuffle.

All this points towards one thing that you have to do after a tournament: email coaches and ask if they saw you play and what they thought.

This can feel like a tough requirement. A lot of players wonder, "Who am I to demand a college coach's opinion?" The thing is, you have the right to know.

After seeing you play, college coaches owe you an honest opinion on where you stand. They may need to see you play again, but at the very least, they should let you know if things are moving in the right direction, or if you should look elsewhere.

Either bit of info is really helpful. If they think you're the right kind of player, that's a huge step in the right direction. If they don't, you can focus your recruiting on other coaches who are interested.