.Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior Citizen WriterAug 22, 2024, 07:00 AM ETClose ACC press reporter.Participated in ESPN.com in 2010.Grad of the College of Florida.In the lead-up to Sunday's kickoff in between Fla State as well as Georgia Specialist, each institutions invested 17 months making spread sheets, filling in files as well as triple-checking personalizeds laws to ensure they loaded all the fundamentals for their transatlantic trip.Uniforms? Check.Cleats? Check.Ranch suiting up? Umm, check?The Ramblin' Wreck? Regrettably, back in Atlanta.Renegade, Osceola as well as their flaming harpoon? If only that pesky quarantine problem had actually been actually solved.Even without their very most famous pregame practices journeying with them to Dublin, Fla State and Georgia Tech will certainly title Week 0 with every little thing they require to participate in football with the help of a thorough behind the curtain attempt that Georgia Technology director of football operations Josh Thompson describes as "not for the faint of center." In every, the institutions blended to bring 238 cages evaluating much more than 40,000 extra pounds-- crammed and transported on cargo aircrafts recently-- loaded with every little thing coming from game time devices to sport medication essentials, healthy protein powder, snack foods including Goldfish as well as certainly, spices that are actually certainly not readily available in Dublin.Editor's Picks2 Related" There is actually no area for inaccuracy listed here," mentioned Jason Baisden, Florida State associate athletic director for devices operations. "As soon as we exist, we're there. Our experts can't return or even can not get in touch with as well as mention, 'Hey, carry this with you.'" Both universities began to get ready for this activity in March 2023, shortly after it was declared. Fla Condition supervisor of football procedures Bruce Warwick had actually been part of numerous foreign games in his previous drop in the NFL, thus he actually possessed a good concept regarding what moving a whole entire group much more than 4,000 kilometers away would entail.Beyond evacuating all the necessary tools, keys will need to be protected, various in-person site brows through to the crew resort would require to become made (consisting of food items samplings) and interaction with officials in Ireland would need to be actually precise. Absolutely nothing-- like assuming that a United States biscuit and also an Irish biscuit coincided-- can be delegated chance." I must know to speak their foreign language," Baisden claimed. "Like, it is actually not an outfit to all of them, it is actually a kit. It is the English foreign language, yet our experts needed to make certain nothing at all was lost with the translation of what our experts are actually performing." Baisden and Thompson made phone call to folks they knew at Notre Dame as well as Naval force, pair of schools that had actually formerly played in Ireland. Baisden requested their carnet, a document that helps with momentary global bring ins and also exports. Generally, the carnet specifies every thing that is actually carried in to a foreign nation line through line, along with specific numbers.Florida Condition AthleticsWant to carry snacks for the staff? No worry. But every snack food, coming from applesauce to crackers, must be noted. The very same goes for rolls of strip, handwear covers, healthy protein powders. You want to deliver it? You must note it.At Florida State, Baisden ended up being the point individual in between teams. In January, he asked the sport nourishment, sporting activity medication, innovative video, weightlifting, radio program and also sporting activities info crews to begin determining what they absolutely had to deliver with them.He explained the procedure as preparing for "an abroad bowl vacation." However the detail with which every little thing must be itemized goes far past any sort of dish excursion preparation, where colleges can easily simply arm their equipment trucks and also be on their technique. For this vacation, Baisden identified every pet crate along with what it was for-- resort, practice, game.International trip is actually why the Ramblin' Accident and also Insurgent and Osceola were actually left behind at home. Irish officials had inquired about their supply, and also each colleges had significant dialogues regarding discovering a means to accomplish it.Renegade, the fabulous horse ridden by Osceola prior to every Fla State home game to grow an ablaze harpoon at midfield, will possess needed to sequester en route back to Tallahassee as required by worldwide laws. Consequently, the equine would certainly have been actually inaccessible for the home opener versus Boston ma College on Sept. 2. Additionally, this is practically a Georgia Tech home game.A gold and also white 1930 Ford Design A Sport Sports car referred to as the "Ramblin' Wreckage" has actually led the Yellowish Jackets onto the field for every home video game due to the fact that 1961. The Wreckage would need to take a trip on a ship to reach Ireland. The travel opportunity home will have indicated it, too, will have been inaccessible for the home opener versus Georgia Condition on Aug. 31. There had actually been dialogue about utilizing an Irish "cousin" of the Wreck, a Peugeot-type stand-in coming from Dublin, however the concept was nixed.There was plenty more that had to be reviewed to come to the finish line. Fla Condition found yourself must get 85 passports for its own players Georgia Specialist had to obtain 70 in overall in between players and also staff. Maybe one of the most unforeseen problem the staffs faced was ensuring they would certainly have the ability to use the brand-new technology made it possible for starting this period-- coach-to-helmet communication and apples ipad on the sideline.The headset units trainers use on the subsidiary in the USA carry out certainly not operate overseas due to the fact that they utilize various superhigh frequency. Each institutions needed to rent brand-new devices, which implies a different belt pack for trainers to receive utilized to. Fla Condition experimented all of them during the course of skirmishes so the trains could start to acquire a taste of them.Thompson said the colleges needed to get numerous lines of frequency for the interaction headsets to function. The ipad tablets demanded control with Aviva Stadium as well as regional providers for particular fiber lines made use of to update video recording directly. The colleges have actually possessed regular phone calls with the ACC and also various merchants to be sure every thing prepares to go. Whatever will certainly be actually assessed Friday.Florida State Sports" The coaches do not as if improvement. I do not such as change," Thompson said. "Everybody is a critter of of habit. I wish to stroll in to the arena when the team walks in and be sure every little thing is actually performed. I don't desire to have to be rollicking panicking, 'Okay, how are our experts going to handle this?'" The crews experienced various airport terminals to have their freight soared over, all at the path of Aer Lingus, the activity's title sponsor. Florida Condition packed up a truck last week that left for Orlando, where its own pet crates were actually then put on payload plane pallets called "cookie pieces" for worldwide trip and then flown to Dublin. Georgia Technician possessed its freight go on an airplane to Chicago, and then on to Dublin.Everything flown over gotten here just before the staffs got in Thursday morning. Each crew sent a breakthrough team early to open up pet crates and also start sorting products for make use of at the hotel or stadium. Devices supervisors put together their corresponding storage locker areas for Thursday practice. Additionally, both crews had hundreds of cases of Powerade and canteen directly shipped to both the hotel as well as stadium.The hotels and resorts were decided on for their correlations to usual street accommodations. They must have big enough rooms offered for staff appointments, however additionally meals that tried like home. Warwick pointed out grits, as an example, were a nonstarter because the cooks could possibly not cook them to requirements. Fla State gamers have an affinity for farm dressing, A1 meat sauce as well as Tabasco, things inaccessible in Ireland, so those particular dressings were actually stuffed." The food items is the largest challenge given that they like what they such as as well as they recognize what they know," Warwick claimed. "Our company attempted to maintain it as Americanized as feasible." The teams on their own left behind the United States on Wednesday night, yet even their partings looked various. For domestic game traveling, both teams look at TSA safety testing at their particular stadiums prior to boarding buses and moving to their charter flights.But for an international journey, both groups need to go through the frequent protection line at their corresponding airports. It is one thing for Florida Condition to look at its little local flight terminal in Tallahassee. However merely imagine the 289-person Georgia Technology take a trip event pulling up to Rout F at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta ga and looking at security.Aer Lingus, the label supporter of the game, needed to obtain unique authorization to protect a gate. Thompson mentioned he has actually been ensured there will definitely be additional surveillance lanes open to acquire Georgia Tech by means of effectively. He considers to make use of a "case unit" where he differentiates the gamers in to groups, with one assigned the captain and behind being sure every person has their passports.Players will certainly be reminded regularly about do's as well as do n'ts if they are actually bringing carry-ons, consisting of the dimension of permitted liquids." I can not hang around to view when I'm the last individual that undergoes the TSA pipes what all was taken during that time," Thompson said.Now photo this upon landing: Gamers standing around the baggage carousel, expecting their gamer equipment bags. Those bags must journey along with all of them since both teams performed completely as much as their parting day. So the bags obtain checked out onto the plane upon flight terminal arrival, for pick-up in baggage insurance claim, besides their very own individual baggage. For this travel, Florida State obtained its players personalized roller travel suitcases. Each teams will certainly have a light technique at the stadium after they arrive, with the principal target to get every person accommodated to the five-hour opportunity change. Georgia Technology train Brent Trick, who went to Ireland for a game as a UCF assistant in 2014, said he does certainly not intend to create the travel any larger than it must be actually-- drawing from his previous foreign encounter." Our team overcoached those children," Trick stated, describing UCF's 26-24 reduction to Penn State. "We attempted to give them an experience. Our team took them to different places, took all of them on tours and it was actually only excessive things when you are actually examining there to play volleyball game. Do you recognize what brings in an excellent knowledge? Winning." To that end, Georgia Tech will fly home after the video game as it has a tight turn-around to the observing week. Due to the fact that Fla State uses a Monday evening, coach Mike Norvell chose to have the team stay on Sunday for some taking in the sights just before going back to Tallahassee.Though that method is actually various, intending the logistics in the lead-up to the video game has equaled. The institutions have resided in continual interaction, however there will be actually anxiety upon arrival, during the course of the game and postgame, too. Every little thing must be actually repacked for travel back home, and also at customs Saturday night. In both instances-- travel to as well as coming from-- both institutions have to count heavily on individuals they have actually certainly never satisfied to get the job done." Anytime and also whenever I travel, I worry if my bag is going to receive there certainly, so you certainly stress over that," Thompson said. "You are actually relocating virtually 300 individuals at once. So you simply need to make sure it is actually proper and ideal.".