Syracuse football coach Fran Brown has an unorthodox ritual for when his team doesn’t win a game.
In a rather bizarre reveal to reporters during his Monday press conference, Brown detailed how he doesn’t shower until the next day after the Orange lose because he feels he “doesn’t deserve the soap.”
At 3-3 in the ACC this season, Syracus’ hope of playing in the conference title game are fading and their loss to Boston College over the weekend had to particularly sting.
“Honestly, I’ve got like a ritual when we lose,” Brown told reporters in a video posted by CNY’s Ashley Wenskoski. “I didn’t even get into the shower until earlier this morning. I just be mad, brush my teeth. It’s like, ‘I don’t deserve soap. I don’t deserve to do all that.’ I’m just focused on trying to get back and try to make sure that our players mentally understand that I let them down. They didn’t do it. I just wake up all night. Especially when we lose. I wake up like damn, that really happened that way. And then I just move on.”
The Syracuse coach continued his honest explanation of his ritual and later revealed that because he doesn’t shower after a loss it means he can’t sleep in the same bed as his wife.
“I’m just mad. I just sit there and brush my teeth,” Brown continued. “That’s what I feel I have to do so y’all won’t say my breath stinks. But I’m just kind of locked in on certain things in certain ways. You gotta earn the right to do certain things. So winners get washed and losers just have to wait a little bit.”
Brown is in his first year as head coach of the Orange and has coached the team to a 6-3 overall record.
Syracuse will travel to California next week before wrapping up the season at home with games against UConn and Miami.