.Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior Citizen WriterAug 22, 2024, 07:00 AM ETClose ACC media reporter.Joined ESPN.com in 2010.Graduate of the College of Florida.In the lead-up to Sunday's kickoff in between Fla State and also Georgia Technology, each colleges spent 17 months bring in spread sheets, filling in records and also triple-checking custom-mades regulations to make certain they stuffed all the fundamentals for their transatlantic trip.Uniforms? Check.Cleats? Check.Ranch suiting up? Umm, check?The Ramblin' Wreck? Regretfully, back in Atlanta.Renegade, Osceola and their flaming lance? If only that pesky quarantine problem had been actually solved.Even without their very most renowned pregame practices journeying with them to Dublin, Fla Condition as well as Georgia Technician will certainly title Full week 0 along with every thing they need to have to participate in football thanks to a thorough behind-the-scenes attempt that Georgia Specialist supervisor of soccer operations Josh Thompson refers to as "except the faint of heart." In all, the colleges combined to carry 238 cages considering more than 40,000 extra pounds-- jam-packed as well as delivered on packages aircrafts recently-- loaded with whatever from activity time tools to sporting activity medication essentials, protein grain, treats such as Fish and of course, condiments that are actually not available in Dublin.Editor's Picks2 Related" There is no space for mistake here," pointed out Jason Baisden, Florida Condition associate sports director for tools functions. "The moment our experts exist, our company exist. Our experts can't come back or can not call as well as claim, 'Hey, take this along with you.'" Both institutions started to prepare yourself for this game in March 2023, quickly after it was revealed. Fla Condition supervisor of soccer procedures Bruce Warwick had been part of several abroad games in his previous drop in the NFL, so he currently possessed a really good suggestion regarding what moving a whole entire staff more than 4,000 miles away will entail.Beyond leaving all the essential tools, passports would certainly must be protected, various in-person site brows through to the group hotels and resort will need to have to become created (consisting of meals tastings) and also interaction with officials in Ireland would have to be actually precise. Nothing at all-- like thinking that a United States cookie as well as an Irish cookie coincided-- can be delegated opportunity." I needed to know to communicate their foreign language," Baisden stated. "Like, it is actually not an uniform to all of them, it's a set. It is the British foreign language, however our team needed to make certain nothing was shed with the translation of what our company are doing." Baisden and Thompson made contact us to people they understood at Notre Dame and also Naval force, pair of colleges that had previously played in Ireland. Baisden sought their carnet, a documentation that facilitates brief global imports and also exports. Practically, the carnet lists every thing that is actually taken in to an overseas country line by line, along with particular numbers.Florida State AthleticsWant to carry snack foods for the team? No worry. However every snack food, from applesauce to crackers, should be listed. The exact same goes with rolls of tape, handwear covers, protein powders. You intend to bring it? You need to provide it.At Fla State, Baisden came to be the point person in between divisions. In January, he asked the sport nutrition, sporting activity medication, creative video recording, weight training, radio program and also sporting activities details groups to begin identifying what they positively must bring along with them.He explained the procedure as preparing for "a foreign bowl journey." But the information with which every little thing must be actually recorded progresses past any sort of dish excursion planning, where institutions can simply arm their devices trucks and also be on their means. For this travel, Baisden classified every pet crate along with what it was actually for-- resort, method, game.International traveling is actually why the Ramblin' Accident and also Renegade as well as Osceola were left in your home. Irish officials had actually asked about their supply, as well as each universities possessed severe conversations about locating a technique to do it.Renegade, the legendary equine ridden through Osceola before every Fla State home video game to grow an ablaze spear at midfield, would possess must quarantine heading back to Tallahassee as required through worldwide regulations. Therefore, the horse would possess been inaccessible for the home opener versus Boston University on Sept. 2. Additionally, this is actually actually a Georgia Tech home game.A gold and white 1930 Ford Model A Sport Coupe known as the "Ramblin' Accident" has led the Yellowish Jackets onto the field for every home game considering that 1961. The Accident would certainly have to journey on a ship to get to Ireland. The trip time home would certainly possess indicated it, also, would possess been actually not available for the home opener versus Georgia Condition on Aug. 31. There had actually been actually dialogue concerning using an Irish "relative" of the Wreckage, a Peugeot-type alternate coming from Dublin, but the tip was nixed.There was plenty extra that must be talked about to get to the goal. Fla State ended up must obtain 85 passports for its players Georgia Tech needed to obtain 70 in complete in between players and also staff. Perhaps the best unanticipated problem the groups faced was making sure they would have the ability to make use of the brand-new modern technology permitted beginning this time-- coach-to-helmet communication as well as apples ipad on the sideline.The headset systems coaches utilize on the subsidiary in the United States carry out not function overseas considering that they use different carrier frequency. Both schools had to lease brand-new units, and that means a different waistband pack for trains to obtain made use of to. Florida Condition experimented them in the course of scrimmages so the trains could possibly start to obtain a taste of them.Thompson said the schools had to get various lines of frequency for the interaction headsets to function. The iPads called for coordination with Aviva Stadium and also local vendors for specific fiber lines used to update video clip directly. The colleges have actually had once a week telephone calls with the ACC and also various merchants to ensure every thing prepares to go. Everything is going to be actually assessed Friday.Florida State Sports" The trainers don't like modification. I do not just like modification," Thompson mentioned. "Everyone is an animal of of behavior. I wish to stroll right into the coliseum when the crew walks in and also ensure every little thing is carried out. I do not wish to must be actually rollicking panicking, 'Okay, just how are our company going to manage this?'" The teams underwent various flight terminals to have their packages soared over, all at the direction of Aer Lingus, the activity's label sponsor. Florida Condition packed up a vehicle recently that left for Orlando, where its dog crates were actually at that point put on packages plane pallets contacted "cookie slabs" for global trip and after that soared to Dublin. Georgia Technology had its packages happen a plane to Chicago, and after that on to Dublin.Everything soared over shown up prior to the teams entered Thursday early morning. Each group sent out a breakthrough team early to open up cages as well as start arranging things for make use of at the hotels and resort or stadium. Tools supervisors established their respective locker rooms for Thursday method. Furthermore, both groups had thousands of situations of Powerade as well as canteen straight shipped to both the hotel and stadium.The hotels were actually picked for their correlations to ordinary roadway hotels and resorts. They must have large enough spaces accessible for staff conferences, but also food items that tried like home. Warwick said grits, as an example, were a nonstarter because the cooks can not prepare all of them to requirements. Fla Condition gamers possess an alikeness for cattle ranch dressing, A1 steak dressing as well as Tabasco, things inaccessible in Ireland, therefore those certain condiments were packed." The food is actually the greatest challenge given that they like what they as if as well as they recognize what they recognize," Warwick mentioned. "Our team attempted to maintain it as Americanized as possible." The groups on their own left the United States on Wednesday night, but even their retirements appeared different. For domestic video game trip, both groups go through TSA safety screening at their corresponding stadiums before boarding buses and heading to their charter flights.But for an international trip, both groups have to look at the routine safety pipe at their particular flight terminals. It is actually one thing for Florida Condition to experience its tiny local flight terminal in Tallahassee. But simply imagine the 289-person Georgia Technology travel event locating to Concourse F at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta and undergoing security.Aer Lingus, the title supporter of the game, needed to acquire unique authorization to secure an entrance. Thompson said he has been ensured there will definitely be actually extra surveillance streets open up to acquire Georgia Tech with properly. He intends to utilize a "shuck device" where he separates the gamers in to groups, with one designated the leader and responsible for seeing to it everyone possesses their passports.Players will definitely be actually advised regularly approximately carry out's as well as perform n'ts if they are taking baggages, including the size of permitted liquids." I can not hang around to observe when I'm the final individual that undergoes the TSA line what all was taken throughout that opportunity," Thompson said.Now image this upon landing: Gamers standing around the baggage carousel, awaiting their gamer tools bags. Those bags needed to take a trip with all of them since each crews exercised all the way around their separation time. So the bags obtain inspected onto the aircraft upon airport arrival, for pickup in baggage insurance claim, besides their own private luggage. For this excursion, Fla State acquired its own players customized roller bags. Both staffs are going to possess a lightweight technique at the arena after they come in, along with the principal goal to receive every person adjusted to the five-hour time modification. Georgia Specialist train Brent Secret, who went to Ireland for a video game as a UCF associate in 2014, claimed he does certainly not want to make the vacation any larger than it needs to be-- reasoning his previous abroad encounter." Our experts overcoached those children," Key stated, describing UCF's 26-24 reduction to Penn State. "Our company tried to give them a take in. Our experts took them to various spots, took all of them on tours as well as it was actually merely way too much stuff when you're discussing there to play football game. Perform you know what makes a terrific adventure? Winning." To that end, Georgia Technician are going to fly home after the game as it possesses a tight turn-around to the complying with full week. Considering that Fla State plays on a Monday night, instructor Mike Norvell chose to have the staff stay on Sunday for some taking in the sights just before coming back to Tallahassee.Though that approach is various, considering the logistics in the lead-up to the video game has equaled. The colleges have actually been in steady interaction, but there are going to be actually stress and anxiety upon appearance, in the course of the activity as well as postgame, too. Whatever has to be repacked for traveling back home, and also at customizeds Sunday evening. In both situations-- traveling to as well as from-- each institutions must count intensely on folks they have actually certainly never fulfilled to do the job." Anytime as well as every time I take a trip, I worry if my bag is going to get there certainly, so you most definitely stress over that," Thompson said. "You are actually relocating practically 300 people at one time. So you simply must make certain it is actually appropriate as well as right.".