“Let’s not think about the big picture,” Thompson said, and he repeated himself for emphasis: “Let’s not think about the big picture. But the here and now is just a slice of the big picture around the Hoyas. “I don’t go through assessments of the program in the middle of the season,” Thompson said last week, back on campus before practice. It is the biggest part of the big picture, whether that’s fair to either the Hall of Fame coach or his 50-year-old son. “You’d be the first person not to ask me” about his dad, Thompson III told me last week.

Source: Washington Post January 15, 2017 20:05 UTC