2011 NCAA Lacrosse Tournament: Duke-Maryland Semifinal  via
images.lax.com  Have you ever read Player Piano by Kurt
Vonnegut?  No?  What the hell is wrong with you, knucklehead? 
It's one of the finest pieces of American literature ever
penned!  Anyway, there's this huge part in the book where all
the big-wig engineers go off to this island in upstate New York
for a retreat.  All the attendees at the retreat are required to
network with people they don't know: bunk up with someone your
don't know; eat lunch with someone you don't know; talk to
someone at the cocktail hour that you don't know.  The idea is
that the attendees are supposed to spread their contact base.
Well, Maryland and Duke think that idea is patently stupid.  The
'Terps and the Blue Devils are just fine keeping to themselves,
thank you very much.  All the riff-raff out there is just
potential for ruining their utopia of playing a 16-game, home-
and-home schedule where each club will earn a birth to the NCAA
Tournament simply by playing each o