.Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior 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 Saturday's kickoff between Florida State as well as Georgia Technician, both universities spent 17 months making spreadsheets, completing records as well as triple-checking customs rules to be sure they stuffed all the essentials for their transatlantic trip.Uniforms? Check.Cleats? Check.Ranch suiting up? Umm, check?The Ramblin' Accident? Sadly, back in Atlanta.Renegade, Osceola and also their flaming spear? So that pesky quarantine issue had been actually solved.Even without their very most renowned pregame practices journeying along with them to Dublin, Fla State and also Georgia Specialist will certainly headline Week 0 with everything they need to have to play football with the help of a comprehensive behind-the-scenes effort that Georgia Specialist supervisor of football procedures Josh Thompson describes as "not for the pale of center." With all, the schools incorporated to take 238 pet crates analyzing greater than 40,000 pounds-- crammed and also shipped on cargo airplanes recently-- full of whatever coming from video game day devices to sporting activity medicine essentials, protein powder, snacks such as Fish and certainly, condiments that are actually certainly not available in Dublin.Editor's Picks2 Related" There is no room for mistake right here," pointed out Jason Baisden, Florida State aide athletic supervisor for devices functions. "When our company exist, our experts exist. Our team can not go back or even can't get in touch with and state, 'Hey, carry this with you.'" Both universities started to prepare for this activity in March 2023, shortly after it was revealed. Florida Condition director of football procedures Bruce Warwick had been part of numerous overseas video games in his previous stops in the NFL, therefore he presently possessed a great idea regarding what relocating a whole team much more than 4,000 miles away would entail.Beyond leaving all the required tools, tickets would need to be secured, numerous in-person web site check outs to the team hotels and resort would need to have to be created (including food tastings) as well as interaction along with representatives in Ireland would need to be exact. Nothing at all-- like presuming that a United States biscuit and an Irish biscuit were the same-- can be delegated possibility." I must find out to talk their language," Baisden claimed. "Like, it is actually not an attire to them, it is actually a set. It is the British foreign language, however our team needed to make certain absolutely nothing was actually lost along with the translation of what we are actually carrying out." Baisden and also Thompson helped make phone call to individuals they understood at Notre Dame and also Navy, two schools that had formerly played in Ireland. Baisden asked for their carnet, a document that assists in short-term worldwide bring ins and exports. Generally, the carnet notes every product that is actually delivered right into an international nation line by line, along with particular numbers.Florida Condition AthleticsWant to bring snacks for the crew? No problem. However every snack, coming from applesauce to biscuits, have to be specified. The same goes with rolls of strip, handwear covers, protein particles. You intend to bring it? You have to provide it.At Fla State, Baisden ended up being the point individual between departments. In January, he inquired the sporting activity nourishment, sport medication, artistic video recording, weight training, radio show as well as sporting activities relevant information staffs to start identifying what they definitely had to take along with them.He explained the procedure as preparing for "an abroad bowl trip." However the detail with which every thing had to be actually detailed progresses beyond any kind of dish travel preparation, where schools can easily only load up their tools trucks as well as perform their method. For this vacation, Baisden identified every cage with what it was actually for-- hotels and resort, method, game.International traveling is why the Ramblin' Wreck and also Renegade and Osceola were actually left in the home. Irish authorities had asked about their supply, and both schools possessed severe conversations about finding a means to carry out it.Renegade, the fabulous equine ridden through Osceola just before every Fla Condition home game to grow an ablaze harpoon at midfield, would have had to quarantine on the way back to Tallahassee as demanded through worldwide guidelines. Consequently, the horse would certainly have been actually inaccessible for the home opener against Boston ma University on Sept. 2. Plus, this is theoretically a Georgia Technician home game.A gold as well as white 1930 Ford Style A Sport Sports car known as the "Ramblin' Wreck" has led the Yellow Jackets onto the area for each home game because 1961. The Accident will need to travel on a ship to reach Ireland. The traveling time home would certainly have implied it, too, will possess been unavailable for the home opener versus Georgia State on Aug. 31. There had been dialogue about making use of an Irish "relative" of the Wreck, a Peugeot-type coming from Dublin, but the idea was nixed.There was actually plenty a lot more that must be actually talked about to get to the finish line. Florida State wound up needing to get 85 travel permits for its players Georgia Technology had to acquire 70 in overall in between players and also workers. Probably the most unanticipated difficulty the crews experienced was actually ensuring they would have the capacity to use the new innovation allowed beginning this period-- coach-to-helmet interaction as well as iPads on the sideline.The headset devices trainers utilize on the subsidiary in the United States do certainly not function overseas due to the fact that they make use of different carrier frequency. Each colleges needed to lease brand-new bodies, which means a various belt pack for trains to get made use of to. Florida Condition exercised with all of them during scrimmages so the trainers could begin to acquire a feel for them.Thompson said the colleges had to get a number of lines of frequency for the communication headsets to work. The apples ipad needed coordination along with Aviva Arena and also nearby suppliers for specific fiber product lines used to update video in real time. The schools have actually had weekly phone calls along with the ACC as well as various sellers to make sure everything prepares to go. Every little thing will be checked Friday.Florida Condition Athletics" The instructors don't as if modification. I do not like improvement," Thompson pointed out. "Everyone is actually a creature of of routine. I would like to stroll into the arena when the group walks in as well as see to it whatever is carried out. I do not desire to need to be actually rollicking panicking, 'Okay, just how are our company mosting likely to manage this?'" The staffs underwent various flight terminals to have their payload flown over, all at the path of Aer Lingus, the game's headline supporter. Fla State packed up a truck last week that left for Orlando, where its own cages were at that point put on payload aircraft pallets phoned "biscuit sheets" for global trip and after that soared to Dublin. Georgia Specialist had its own payload happen a plane to Chicago, and then on Dublin.Everything soared over arrived before the groups got inside Thursday early morning. Each staff sent a breakthrough group early to open cages as well as start sorting items for make use of at the lodging or even arena. Devices managers put together their corresponding storage locker rooms for Thursday strategy. In addition, both teams had dozens scenarios of Powerade and also canteen straight shipped to both the resort and also stadium.The accommodations were decided on for their resemblances to typical roadway hotels. They must possess huge enough spaces offered for team meetings, but also food that sampled like home. Warwick stated grits, as an example, were a nonstarter considering that the cooks can not cook them to specification. Fla State gamers possess an alikeness for cattle ranch dressing, A1 steak dressing as well as Tabasco, products unavailable in Ireland, so those details seasonings were actually stuffed." The meals is the greatest difficulty due to the fact that they like what they like and they recognize what they recognize," Warwick said. "We tried to maintain it as Americanized as achievable." The crews on their own left the United States on Wednesday evening, but even their separations looked various. For residential game travel, both teams look at TSA security screening at their particular arenas just before boarding buses as well as heading to their charter flights.But for a worldwide travel, both crews need to go through the normal safety line at their corresponding airport terminals. It is actually one point for Florida State to experience its own little regional airport in Tallahassee. Yet only envision the 289-person Georgia Technology journey gathering locating to Rout F at Hartsfield-Jackson International Flight Terminal in Atlanta ga as well as experiencing security.Aer Lingus, the headline sponsor of the game, had to acquire special consent to get an entrance. Thompson claimed he has actually been actually guaranteed there will be added safety and security lanes available to receive Georgia Tech with efficiently. He intends to use a "hull unit" where he splits up the players right into teams, with one marked the leader and also responsible for seeing to it every person possesses their passports.Players will be actually reminded often about carry out's and also perform n'ts if they are actually bringing baggages, including the size of allowable liquids." I can't wait to find when I am actually the last person that goes through the TSA pipes what all was taken in the course of that opportunity," Thompson said.Now picture this upon arrival: Players loafing the luggage slide carousel, expecting their gamer tools bags. Those bags must journey along with all of them due to the fact that both crews engaged in all the way as much as their departure day. So the bags receive inspected onto the airplane upon airport terminal arrival, for pick up in baggage claim, aside from their very own individual baggage. For this journey, Florida State received its gamers tailored curler bags. Each groups will have a lightweight strategy at the stadium after they show up, with the primary objective to obtain everyone acclimated to the five-hour opportunity improvement. Georgia Specialist instructor Brent Secret, who visited Ireland for an activity as a UCF aide in 2014, mentioned he carries out not desire to create the excursion any much bigger than it must be-- reasoning his previous overseas encounter." Our experts overcoached those little ones," Key pointed out, pertaining to UCF's 26-24 reduction to Penn Condition. "We tried to provide a take in. Our company took all of them to different areas, took them on tours as well as it was just a lot of things when you're examining there to participate in soccer game. Do you know what makes a wonderful experience? Succeeding." To that end, Georgia Specialist are going to fly home after the video game as it possesses a tight turn-around to the complying with full week. Given that Fla Condition uses a Monday evening, train Mike Norvell chose to have the staff stay on Sunday for some sightseeing and tour prior to coming back to Tallahassee.Though that technique is actually various, considering the strategies in the lead-up to the game has actually equaled. The colleges have remained in consistent communication, yet there will definitely be stress upon landing, during the course of the game and postgame, also. Everything needs to be actually repacked for travel back home, and at customizeds Saturday evening. In each scenarios-- traveling to and also coming from-- both schools need to depend highly on individuals they have actually never complied with to get the job done." Anytime and each time I journey, I stress if my bag is actually going to acquire there, so you absolutely worry about that," Thompson stated. "You are actually relocating practically 300 people at once. So you merely have to ensure it is right as well as correct.".