Howard Megdal recently wrote about his impressions from Big East Media day and had this to say about his interview with Coach Thompson.

My conversation with John Thompson III, the coach at Georgetown, provided more insight into last season than this one, however. Thompson III seemed to have little in the way of concrete changes he planned to implement (or at least to share). He pointed out that center Greg Monroe had improved in every aspect of his game, but most of the difference he saw between last year's collapse and this year's prospects boiled down to, in order, "determination", "hunger", "chemistry", and several other words that made it clear he was not a huge fan of the players who departed, DaJuan Summers and Jessie Sapp.

Can guarantee you that Coach Thompson would never talk down about former players, especially to the media.  Maybe Megdal confused JT3 with Jim Calhoun, I know are many similarities.  One is polished, humble and polite.  The other is an angry and incoherent scumbag.  So similar.