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

In a rather bizarre revelation to reporters during his Monday press conference, Brown described how he doesn’t shower until the day after the Orange lose because he feels he “doesn’t deserve the soap.”

At 3-3 in the ACC this season, Syracuse’s hopes of playing in the conference title game are fading and their loss to Boston College over the weekend was particularly tough.

“Honestly, I have like a ritual when we lose,” Brown told reporters in a video posted by CNY’s Ashley Wenskoski. “I didn’t even get in the shower until earlier this morning. I’m just angry, brushing 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 come back and try to make sure our players mentally understand that I’m letting them down. They didn’t. I just wake up all night. Especially when we lose. I wake up like hell, it really did. And then I just move on.”

The Syracuse coach continued his candid explanation of his ritual, later revealing that since 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’m just sitting there brushing my teeth,” Brown continued. “That’s what I feel like I have to do so you guys won’t say my breath stinks. But I’m kind of locked into certain things in certain ways. You have to earn the right to do certain things. So winners get washed and losers just have to wait a 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 closing out the season with games against UConn and Miami.