.Andrea Adelson, ESPN Elderly Person WriterAug 22, 2024, 07:00 AM ETClose ACC reporter.Signed up with ESPN.com in 2010.Graduate of the College of Florida.In the lead-up to Saturday's kickoff in between Florida State as well as Georgia Tech, both colleges spent 17 months bring in spreadsheets, filling out papers as well as triple-checking custom-mades regulations to ensure they stuffed all the essentials for their transatlantic trip.Uniforms? Check.Cleats? Check.Ranch suiting up? Umm, check?The Ramblin' Wreckage? Regretfully, back in Atlanta.Renegade, Osceola as well as their ablaze harpoon? So that pesky quarantine issue had been solved.Even without their very most well-known pregame customs journeying along with them to Dublin, Florida Condition and also Georgia Tech will certainly heading Full week 0 along with every thing they require to participate in football thanks to an exhaustive behind the curtain initiative that Georgia Technology director of soccer operations Josh Thompson refers to as "not for the pale of heart." With all, the colleges mixed to bring 238 cages considering greater than 40,000 pounds-- stuffed and also shipped on freight planes last week-- full of everything coming from video game day tools to sport medicine basics, healthy protein grain, snack foods such as Fish and indeed, spices that are actually certainly not offered in Dublin.Editor's Picks2 Related" There is no space for error right here," stated Jason Baisden, Florida Condition aide athletic director for devices functions. "The moment our company're there, we're there. Our experts can not return or can't get in touch with and also claim, 'Hey, bring this with you.'" Both universities began to prepare yourself for this video game in March 2023, soon after it was actually introduced. Fla Condition director of volleyball functions Bruce Warwick had actually become part of a number of abroad activities in his previous stops in the NFL, thus he already had an excellent idea concerning what relocating a whole entire staff much more than 4,000 kilometers away would entail.Beyond leaving all the important tools, tickets would have to be actually gotten, multiple in-person site brows through to the staff hotel would certainly require to become created (consisting of food items samplings) as well as interaction with representatives in Ireland will must be actually specific. Absolutely nothing-- like assuming that a United States cookie as well as an Irish biscuit were the same-- can be delegated to chance." I had to know to speak their foreign language," Baisden pointed out. "Like, it's certainly not an attire to them, it's a kit. It is actually the English foreign language, yet our experts needed to ensure absolutely nothing was actually lost with the translation of what our company are carrying out." Baisden and Thompson helped make phone call to folks they recognized at Notre Dame as well as Navy, two universities that had actually previously played in Ireland. Baisden requested for their carnet, a documentation that helps with short-lived international imports and exports. Basically, the carnet notes every thing that is delivered right into an international nation line through line, along with specific numbers.Florida Condition AthleticsWant to bring snacks for the team? No worry. Yet every treat, from applesauce to crackers, have to be listed. The very same goes with rolls of strip, gloves, healthy protein powders. You desire to take it? You must detail it.At Fla State, Baisden ended up being the aspect person between teams. In January, he talked to the sporting activity nutrition, sport medicine, artistic video, weightlifting, radio broadcast and also sports relevant information groups to begin pinpointing what they completely must take with them.He explained the process as planning for "an abroad dish vacation." However the particular along with which every little thing needed to be actually made a list of goes far beyond any dish excursion planning, where schools can easily simply load up their equipment trucks as well as perform their way. For this excursion, Baisden tagged every crate with what it was actually for-- accommodation, method, game.International traveling is why the Ramblin' Wreck as well as Renegade as well as Osceola were actually left behind in the home. Irish authorities had actually asked about their accessibility, and also both colleges possessed significant conversations regarding locating a technique to carry out it.Renegade, the legendary steed ridden through Osceola before every Fla Condition home game to grow an ablaze bayonet at midfield, would certainly possess needed to quarantine on the way back to Tallahassee as needed through worldwide policies. Therefore, the equine would possess been unavailable for the home opener against Boston ma College on Sept. 2. Plus, this is actually a Georgia Technology home game.A gold and white colored 1930 Ford Style A Sport Coupe called the "Ramblin' Accident" has actually led the Yellow Jackets onto the area for each home activity considering that 1961. The Wreckage would certainly must travel on a ship to reach Ireland. The traveling opportunity home would possess meant it, also, will have been actually not available for the home opener versus Georgia Condition on Aug. 31. There had been discussion concerning using an Irish "cousin" of the Accident, a Peugeot-type alternate from Dublin, however the suggestion was nixed.There was plenty even more that had to be talked about to come to the finish line. Florida Condition wound up having to receive 85 passports for its gamers Georgia Technician had to obtain 70 in overall in between gamers as well as staff. Probably one of the most unforeseen difficulty the staffs dealt with was actually making sure they will have the capacity to make use of the new modern technology enabled starting this time-- coach-to-helmet interaction and iPads on the sideline.The headset devices coaches make use of on the sideline in the USA perform certainly not function overseas because they utilize various superhigh frequency. Both colleges needed to rent out brand new bodies, and that implies a various waistband pack for trainers to get made use of to. Fla State experimented all of them during the course of scrimmages so the instructors might start to get a taste of them.Thompson mentioned the schools must safeguard a number of collections of frequency for the communication headsets to work. The iPads required coordination with Aviva Stadium and regional vendors for particular thread series made use of to upgrade video in real time. The schools have actually had weekly calls along with the ACC and also various vendors to be sure everything is ready to go. Whatever will certainly be tested Friday.Florida State Sports" The trains don't as if adjustment. I don't such as modification," Thompson claimed. "Everybody is actually a critter of of habit. I intend to stroll in to the stadium when the team strolls in and also be sure every thing is actually carried out. I do not would like to must be actually running around panicking, 'All right, exactly how are our company visiting handle this?'" The crews experienced different flight terminals to have their freight soared over, all at the instructions of Aer Lingus, the game's title enroller. Fla Condition evacuated a truck last week that left for Orlando, where its pet crates were at that point placed on payload airplane pallets contacted "cookie pieces" for global travel and after that soared to Dublin. Georgia Technology had its payload take place an aircraft to Chicago, and afterwards on Dublin.Everything soared over gotten there before the groups got in Thursday morning. Each staff delivered a breakthrough team early to open up pet crates and begin sorting items for make use of at the hotels and resort or even coliseum. Tools managers established their respective storage locker rooms for Thursday technique. In addition, both groups possessed thousands of scenarios of Powerade and water bottles directly delivered to both the lodging as well as stadium.The hotels and resorts were actually selected for their similarities to regular road resorts. They needed to have sizable enough areas readily available for team appointments, yet likewise food items that sampled like home. Warwick mentioned grits, for instance, were actually a nonstarter since the chefs could certainly not prepare them to spec. Fla Condition players have an affinity for farm clothing, A1 steak sauce as well as Tabasco, items not available in Ireland, therefore those certain spices were actually stuffed." The food is actually the biggest challenge since they like what they just like as well as they understand what they understand," Warwick pointed out. "Our team made an effort to maintain it as Americanized as achievable." The crews on their own left behind the United States on Wednesday night, however also their departures looked various. For domestic game travel, both staffs look at TSA surveillance assessment at their particular stadiums before boarding buses and moving to their charter flights.But for an international trip, both teams have to experience the normal security pipe at their corresponding flight terminals. It is actually one point for Fla Condition to undergo its own little regional airport terminal in Tallahassee. However merely visualize the 289-person Georgia Technician journey celebration bring up to Concourse F at Hartsfield-Jackson International Flight Terminal in Atlanta georgia and also undergoing security.Aer Lingus, the headline enroller of the game, had to obtain special authorization to safeguard a gateway. Thompson claimed he has been actually guaranteed there are going to be extra security lanes ready for acquire Georgia Specialist through effectively. He organizes to make use of a "husk unit" where he separates the gamers into groups, along with one marked the leader and also behind seeing to it every person possesses their passports.Players will certainly be actually reminded often around do's and carry out n'ts if they are actually taking carry-ons, featuring the size of permitted fluids." I can't hang around to find when I am actually the last individual that goes through the TSA line what all was actually taken in the course of that time," Thompson said.Now picture this upon appearance: Players loafing the baggage carousel, expecting their player equipment bags. Those bags needed to take a trip with them due to the fact that both groups engaged in right as much as their parting day. So the bags receive checked out onto the airplane upon airport delivery, for pick-up in baggage case, besides their own personal suitcases. For this journey, Fla State got its own gamers personalized curler bags. Both teams will definitely possess a light practice at the arena after they arrive, with the main goal to acquire every person acclimated to the five-hour time improvement. Georgia Tech train Brent Trick, who headed to Ireland for an activity as a UCF assistant in 2014, mentioned he does certainly not would like to produce the trip any greater than it must be actually-- reasoning his previous international encounter." Our team overcoached those children," Key stated, pertaining to UCF's 26-24 reduction to Penn State. "Our experts made an effort to provide an experience. Our team took them to various spots, took them on trips as well as it was merely too much things when you're discussing there to play football video game. Perform you know what brings in a great knowledge? Gaining." To that end, Georgia Technology are going to soar home after the game as it has a tight turnaround to the following week. Due to the fact that Fla State plays on a Monday night, train Mike Norvell decided to have the team stay on Sunday for some sightseeing before going back to Tallahassee.Though that strategy is different, preparing the coordinations in the lead-up to the game has equaled. The colleges have remained in consistent communication, yet there will certainly be actually anxiousness upon landing, during the course of the activity and postgame, as well. Whatever needs to be actually repacked for trip back home, and also at personalizeds Saturday evening. In both cases-- travel to as well as coming from-- both schools must rely heavily on folks they have never ever satisfied to finish the job." Anytime as well as every time I journey, I fret if my bag is going to get there certainly, so you undoubtedly worry about that," Thompson said. "You're relocating almost 300 individuals at once. So you only must make sure it is actually right and also right.".