.Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior Citizen WriterAug 22, 2024, 07:00 AM ETClose ACC press reporter.Participated in ESPN.com in 2010.Graduate of the University of Florida.In the lead-up to Sunday's kickoff between Fla Condition and Georgia Tech, both institutions invested 17 months bring in spread sheets, filling in documents and also triple-checking custom-mades guidelines to ensure they stuffed all the essentials for their transatlantic trip.Uniforms? Check.Cleats? Check.Ranch clothing? Umm, check?The Ramblin' Wreckage? Sadly, back in Atlanta.Renegade, Osceola and also their flaming lance? So that pesky quarantine concern had been actually solved.Even without their very most renowned pregame heritages traveling with all of them to Dublin, Fla Condition as well as Georgia Technology are going to title Full week 0 with whatever they need to have to participate in football because of an extensive backstage attempt that Georgia Specialist supervisor of football procedures Josh Thompson describes as "not for the faint of soul." In every, the schools mixed to bring 238 cages evaluating greater than 40,000 extra pounds-- jam-packed as well as delivered on freight airplanes last week-- filled with whatever coming from video game day equipment to sporting activity medicine essentials, protein particle, snack foods such as Goldfish as well as of course, spices that are certainly not offered in Dublin.Editor's Picks2 Related" There is no space for inaccuracy right here," pointed out Jason Baisden, Fla State associate sports supervisor for devices operations. "The moment our team're there, our experts exist. Our team can not return or even can't phone and say, 'Hey, carry this along with you.'" Both colleges started to prepare for this game in March 2023, soon after it was introduced. Florida State director of football operations Bruce Warwick had become part of a number of overseas activities in his previous stops in the NFL, therefore he currently possessed an excellent tip concerning what moving a whole entire team greater than 4,000 miles away would entail.Beyond packing up all the necessary devices, tickets will must be actually secured, numerous in-person website sees to the group hotels and resort would need to have to be made (featuring meals tastings) and communication along with authorities in Ireland would certainly need to be accurate. Nothing at all-- like presuming that a United States cookie and also an Irish cookie coincided-- may be delegated possibility." I needed to learn to communicate their language," Baisden mentioned. "Like, it is actually not an outfit to them, it's a package. It is the English language, yet our company must ensure nothing was actually dropped with the translation of what our team are actually carrying out." Baisden as well as Thompson produced contact us to folks they recognized at Notre Dame and also Naval force, 2 schools that had previously played in Ireland. Baisden requested for their carnet, a paper that assists in momentary international bring ins as well as exports. Essentially, the carnet notes every thing that is taken right into an overseas country line by line, with exact numbers.Florida State AthleticsWant to deliver treats for the team? Not a problem. Yet every treat, from applesauce to crackers, must be actually noted. The exact same goes with rolls of tape, gloves, healthy protein grains. You intend to bring it? You have to specify it.At Florida Condition, Baisden ended up being the aspect individual in between divisions. In January, he talked to the sport nutrition, sport medicine, innovative video clip, weight training, radio broadcast and also sports details teams to start identifying what they absolutely needed to take with them.He explained the method as planning for "an abroad dish vacation." Yet the detail along with which whatever needed to be recorded progresses beyond any type of bowl travel planning, where schools may merely arm their devices vehicles and also be on their technique. For this journey, Baisden labeled every cage along with what it was actually for-- hotel, practice, game.International traveling is actually why the Ramblin' Wreckage and Renegade and Osceola were left in the house. Irish officials had inquired about their schedule, as well as each institutions had major conversations about finding a technique to carry out it.Renegade, the famous equine ridden through Osceola prior to every Florida Condition home activity to grow a flaming harpoon at midfield, would certainly have needed to quarantine heading back to Tallahassee as called for through worldwide guidelines. Therefore, the horse would have been inaccessible for the home opener against Boston University on Sept. 2. Additionally, this is actually theoretically a Georgia Technology home game.A gold as well as white colored 1930 Ford Model A Sporting activity Coupe known as the "Ramblin' Accident" has led the Yellowish Jackets onto the field for each home game due to the fact that 1961. The Wreck will must travel on a ship to reach Ireland. The traveling time home would certainly possess indicated it, also, will have been inaccessible for the home opener versus Georgia Condition on Aug. 31. There had actually been conversation concerning making use of an Irish "relative" of the Wreckage, a Peugeot-type stand-in from Dublin, however the tip was actually nixed.There was actually plenty extra that needed to be actually explained to come to the finish line. Florida State found yourself having to get 85 keys for its gamers Georgia Tech needed to acquire 70 in overall between gamers and also staff. Probably the absolute most unpredicted challenge the crews encountered was actually making sure they will be able to utilize the brand-new innovation allowed beginning this time-- coach-to-helmet communication and iPads on the sideline.The headset systems trainers make use of on the sideline in the USA do certainly not function overseas since they use various superhigh frequency. Each universities had to lease new devices, which means a different belt pack for trainers to get made use of to. Fla Condition exercised with all of them in the course of skirmishes so the trains could possibly start to obtain a taste of them.Thompson pointed out the schools needed to safeguard multiple series of frequency for the interaction headsets to operate. The ipad tablets needed sychronisation with Aviva Arena and nearby providers for details thread series made use of to update video directly. The institutions have actually had regular phone calls with the ACC and different suppliers to make certain everything prepares to go. Everything will certainly be actually evaluated Friday.Florida State Athletics" The trains don't such as improvement. I don't like change," Thompson claimed. "Everyone is actually an animal of of practice. I intend to walk in to the arena when the team walks in and see to it everything is done. I do not desire to need to be actually running around panicking, 'All right, how are our company going to handle this?'" The crews went through various airports to have their freight soared over, all at the path of Aer Lingus, the activity's headline sponsor. Fla Condition left a vehicle recently that left behind for Orlando, where its crates were at that point put on cargo airplane pallets gotten in touch with "cookie pieces" for worldwide travel and after that soared to Dublin. Georgia Technician possessed its packages go on an aircraft to Chicago, and after that on Dublin.Everything soared over arrived before the staffs got in Thursday early morning. Each crew delivered an advance team early to open up crates as well as start sorting items for usage at the lodging or coliseum. Tools managers put together their particular locker spaces for Thursday practice. Moreover, both teams had hundreds of situations of Powerade and also water bottles directly transported to both the lodging as well as stadium.The accommodations were picked for their similarities to normal street hotels and resorts. They had to have huge enough rooms offered for staff meetings, however additionally food items that sampled like home. Warwick said grits, for example, were a nonstarter due to the fact that the cooks can certainly not cook them to specification. Florida State players have an alikeness for cattle ranch dressing, A1 meat sauce and also Tabasco, things not available in Ireland, therefore those specific condiments were packed." The food items is the biggest problem given that they like what they like as well as they know what they know," Warwick said. "Our team made an effort to keep it as Americanized as feasible." The groups themselves left behind the USA on Wednesday evening, yet even their separations appeared various. For residential video game traveling, both crews go through TSA safety and security screening at their corresponding stadiums before boarding buses as well as moving to their charter flights.But for a global excursion, both crews need to go through the frequent safety and security line at their particular airport terminals. It is actually something for Florida Condition to experience its tiny regional airport terminal in Tallahassee. But just visualize the 289-person Georgia Tech take a trip celebration bring up to Rout F at Hartsfield-Jackson International Flight Terminal in Atlanta ga and undergoing security.Aer Lingus, the label enroller of the video game, had to receive unique consent to protect a gateway. Thompson claimed he has been guaranteed there will be actually extra security lanes open up to get Georgia Specialist through efficiently. He plans to make use of a "husk system" where he separates the players into teams, with one designated the captain and also in charge of seeing to it everybody possesses their passports.Players will certainly be advised often about perform's as well as perform n'ts if they are actually bringing carry-ons, including the measurements of allowed fluids." I can't hang around to view when I am actually the last person that goes through the TSA pipes what all was actually taken in the course of that opportunity," Thompson said.Now picture this upon landing: Players standing around the baggage carousel, waiting for their gamer tools bags. Those bags needed to travel with all of them since each staffs practiced right up to their separation time. So the bags receive checked onto the airplane upon airport terminal delivery, for pick-up in baggage claim, in addition to their very own individual travel luggage. For this journey, Florida Condition received its players personalized curler bags. Each crews will possess a lightweight method at the coliseum after they arrive, along with the principal objective to receive every person accommodated to the five-hour time adjustment. Georgia Tech trainer Brent Secret, that went to Ireland for a video game as a UCF aide in 2014, stated he performs not would like to produce the excursion any larger than it has to be-- drawing from his previous abroad take in." Our company overcoached those kids," Trick pointed out, pertaining to UCF's 26-24 reduction to Penn Condition. "We made an effort to provide an encounter. We took them to various spots, took all of them on scenic tours as well as it was actually simply too much stuff when you're examining there to play football activity. Do you recognize what creates a wonderful expertise? Winning." Therefore, Georgia Tech will fly home after the game as it possesses a limited turnaround to the following week. Due to the fact that Fla Condition plays on a Monday evening, trainer Mike Norvell decided to possess the group stay on Sunday for some sightseeing and tour before going back to Tallahassee.Though that method is actually different, planning the coordinations in the lead-up to the game has actually been identical. The colleges have actually resided in continual interaction, but there will definitely be anxiousness upon arrival, during the course of the activity as well as postgame, as well. Every little thing has to be actually repacked for trip back home, as well as at custom-mades Saturday night. In each scenarios-- traveling to as well as coming from-- both institutions have to rely intensely on folks they have actually certainly never complied with to finish the job." Anytime and every single time I journey, I worry if my bag is going to obtain certainly there, so you most definitely worry about that," Thompson claimed. "You are actually relocating just about 300 people at once. So you simply have to make certain it is appropriate as well as best.".