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There are a lot of superstitions and idiosyncrasies in sports. First-year Syracuse Head Coach Fran Brown gave us another strange sports idiosyncrasy.
Syracuse lost on Saturday to Boston College to fall to 6-3, their second loss in three games. In his weekly Monday press conference, Brown let us know that things get weird after a loss for him.
Brown claimed that after a loss, he doesn’t shower.
“I don’t deserve soap”
Syracuse’s head coach does not shower after he loses football games
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Honestly, I got like, a ritual, like, when we lose, I ain’t even getting a shower till early (Monday) morning. I just be mad. I just brush my teeth. But it’s like, I don’t deserve soap, I don’t deserve to do all that. I’m just focused on like, trying to get back and trying to make sure that our players mentally understand and know that I let them down, that they didn’t do it. You know, I just wake up all night, especially when you lose, you like, wake up, like, ‘Damn, it really happened.’ You know, it really happened that way. So it’s just different pieces, and then I just move on. There’s a process that I follow every week, win, lose, or draw. Only thing is, like, my wife, I can’t sleep in the bed if we lose because I ain’t gonna get in the shower for that day. I’m just mad, and I just sit there. I just brush my teeth. That’s what I have to do so y’all won’t say my breath stinks, but I’m just just kind of locked in at certain things, certain ways. I think you gotta earn the right to do certain things
I think the only person that wants Syracuse to win more than Brown on a weekly basis is Fran Brown’s wife.
Hopefully the Orange can beat Cal on the road this week so that Fran Brown can sleep in his own bed upon returning from the long trip.