Syracuse's Felisha Legette-Jack states 'nobody f****** cares' after Orange fall to Albany

The JMA Wireless Dome may have been more disappointed in a 73-70 loss for Syracuse to Albany on Wednesday if more than just over 2,000 fans showed up to the game.

That had Felisha Legette-Jack quite frustrated about the fan interest around her program with the Orange. Following the loss last night, Legette-Jack expressed how she felt about that in her postgame press conference considering “nobody f****** cares”.

“You know, this is what I’ve been trying to tell these young people on our team. Like, nobody cares about our program. Nobody cares about women’s basketball. It’s evident how, you know – it’s not nobody’s fault but, you know, the laughing and all that fun stuff? Nobody’s into it like we are and that’s okay,” Legette-Jack said. “What I try to get our kids to understand? We’ve got to be so locked into us that we don’t see that the fanbase is, like, 12 people here. We can’t see people that’s not on the court that’s not really locked in. Because it’s about our dreams. It’s about our decision that we’re going to rise above it all. And so this is the lesson learned.”

She continued on her rant.

“I’m glad I walked in when I did so our players can see that nobody f****** cares, man. We up here crying outside and we’ve got a fun, let’s go have a party in here. It’s not you guys. It’s everybody. And it’s okay,” Legette-Jack added. “But what’s not okay is us not giving 100% for ourselves, man. It’s life lesson stuff we’re talking about, man. We’ve got to decide that we’re going to hunker down and turn the noise out from all the people on the outside, lock into the inside, and get real with each other. This is a perfect situation for us. This is what’s supposed to happen for us right now and we’ll get better.”

Legette-Jack was even more frustrated considering this is the case in her third season back as the head coach of her alma mater. She expected more from them in showing their support during their games.

“We’ve got to close the noise out – whatever that noise is. If they’re real fans and really love me like I think they should, they’d come to the game and really be a part of this thing and not just send 30 people to this game, you know. So I’m disappointed in my fanbase here,” Legette-Jack said. “If I’m home and this is supposed to be home? Prove it, okay? This is ridiculous. I’m the one coach that’s from this place and this is the respect that we get here?”

Syracuse isn’t excusing the loss either. Winning is part of that and a 2-3 overall start, including this home loss to the Great Danes, doesn’t help.

“You know, we don’t lose and I’m not going away from that,” said Legette-Jack. “Albany is a good team. I’m going to say it on record – the better team didn’t win today but the more prepared team won today. The team that decided that every single possession is going to matter as if their life depended on it. We thought that we had a tomorrow.”

Syracuse will have one or two games at a neutral site tournament next week to correct some of that. The Orange will then return home to open the month of December in what they’ll hope will be a more intent audience than they’ve had.

“We’re going to take this and sit on it for a day. We’re going to go home, we’re going to get on a plane, we’re going to go down to Florida, and we’re going to decide what this really means to each one of us,” said Legette-Jack. “We’ll get better.”