Syracuse football coach Fran Brown has a peculiar way of handling defeat. During a Monday press conference, he revealed that he refuses to shower until the day after a loss, believing he “doesn’t deserve the soap.”
With a 3-3 record in the ACC this season, Syracuse’s hopes of reaching the conference title game are dwindling. Their loss to Boston College over the weekend was particularly painful, according to the New York Post.
“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.”
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The Syracuse coach further explained his post-loss ritual, revealing that his refusal to shower after a defeat 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.”
In his first year as head coach, Brown has led Syracuse to a 6-3 record.
The team will travel to California next week before concluding the season with home games against UConn and Miami.
