Syracuse football coach Fran Brown has an unorthodox ritual when his team doesn’t win a game.

In a rather bizarre revelation to reporters during his Monday press conference, Brown explained that he only showers the day after the Orange loss because he feels he “doesn’t deserve the soap.”

At 3-3 in the ACC this season, Syracuse’s hopes of making the conference title game are fading, and their loss to Boston College this weekend must have particularly stinged.

“Honestly, I have a ritual when we lose. » Brown told reporters in a video posted by CNY’s Ashley Wenskoski. “I didn’t even take a shower until this morning. I’m just angry, brush my teeth. It’s like, “I don’t deserve soap.” I don’t deserve to do all this. I’m just focused on trying to come back and make sure our players understand mentally that I let them down. They didn’t do it. I wake up all night. Especially when you lose. I wake up feeling like it really happened like that. And then I 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 angry. I just sit there and brush my teeth,” Brown continued. “That’s what I feel I need to do so you don’t say my breath stinks.” But I’m just kind of locked in on certain things, in a way. You have to earn the right to do certain things. So the winners are washed and the losers just have to wait a little.

Brown is in his first year as head coach of the Orange and has led the team to a 6-3 overall record.

Syracuse travels to California next week before finishing the season at home with games against UConn and Miami.