.Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior WriterAug 22, 2024, 07:00 AM ETClose ACC press reporter.Joined ESPN.com in 2010.Grad of the College of Florida.In the lead-up to Saturday's kickoff between Florida Condition and also Georgia Technician, both colleges invested 17 months making spread sheets, completing files and triple-checking customizeds guidelines to make certain they packed all the fundamentals for their transatlantic trip.Uniforms? Check.Cleats? Check.Ranch clothing? Umm, check?The Ramblin' Accident? Regrettably, back in Atlanta.Renegade, Osceola as well as their ablaze bayonet? So that pesky quarantine issue had been actually solved.Even without their very most legendary pregame traditions journeying along with all of them to Dublin, Florida State and also Georgia Specialist are going to heading Full week 0 along with every thing they need to have to play soccer with the help of an extensive behind the curtain attempt that Georgia Technician supervisor of soccer procedures Josh Thompson refers to as "except the faint of heart." In every, the schools combined to deliver 238 dog crates weighing greater than 40,000 pounds-- jam-packed and delivered on payload airplanes recently-- filled with every little thing from activity day devices to sporting activity medicine basics, protein powder, treats including Fish and also certainly, dressings that are actually certainly not offered in Dublin.Editor's Picks2 Related" There is actually no space for error listed below," pointed out Jason Baisden, Fla State associate sports supervisor for devices procedures. "Once our experts're there, our company're there. Our team can not return or can't call as well as claim, 'Hey, take this with you.'" Both schools started to prepare for this activity in March 2023, quickly after it was actually declared. Florida State supervisor of soccer procedures Bruce Warwick had belonged to many overseas activities in his previous stops in the NFL, so he presently had a really good suggestion regarding what moving an entire crew much more than 4,000 miles away would certainly entail.Beyond packing up all the essential equipment, keys would need to be actually protected, numerous in-person web site check outs to the staff resort would require to be made (including food samplings) as well as interaction with representatives in Ireland will have to be exact. Nothing-- like assuming that a United States cookie and also an Irish cookie were the same-- might be left to possibility." I had to learn to speak their language," Baisden claimed. "Like, it is actually not an uniform to them, it's a package. It is the British language, however our team needed to ensure nothing was actually shed along with the translation of what our experts are actually doing." Baisden and Thompson created contact us to individuals they understood at Notre Dame and also Naval force, 2 universities that had actually previously played in Ireland. Baisden asked for their carnet, a documentation that facilitates short-term worldwide bring ins as well as exports. Practically, the carnet specifies every thing that is actually taken into an overseas nation line through line, along with specific numbers.Florida Condition AthleticsWant to deliver snacks for the crew? No problem. However every snack food, from applesauce to crackers, need to be actually listed. The same opts for rolls of tape, handwear covers, protein powders. You would like to carry it? You need to specify it.At Florida Condition, Baisden came to be the point individual between teams. In January, he inquired the sport nourishment, sport medication, imaginative online video, weightlifting, radio broadcast as well as sports information crews to begin recognizing what they positively needed to deliver with them.He described the process as getting ready for "an abroad dish journey." Yet the particular with which everything must be actually made a list of goes far beyond any kind of dish excursion prep work, where schools can easily simply arm their devices trucks and perform their means. For this vacation, Baisden identified every dog crate with what it was for-- lodging, technique, game.International traveling is actually why the Ramblin' Wreckage as well as Insurgent and also Osceola were actually left behind in your home. Irish officials had actually asked about their schedule, as well as each colleges possessed significant discussions regarding discovering a way to accomplish it.Renegade, the fabulous equine ridden by Osceola just before every Fla Condition home game to plant a flaming lance at midfield, would certainly have needed to sequester heading back to Tallahassee as required by worldwide laws. Therefore, the horse would certainly have been inaccessible for the home opener versus Boston College on Sept. 2. Plus, this is actually theoretically a Georgia Specialist home game.A gold and white 1930 Ford Style A Sporting activity Sports car referred to as the "Ramblin' Wreckage" has actually led the Yellowish Jackets onto the area for every home video game due to the fact that 1961. The Wreckage would need to journey on a ship to get to Ireland. The traveling opportunity home will possess meant it, too, would certainly possess been actually inaccessible for the home opener versus Georgia Condition on Aug. 31. There had actually been actually dialogue about using an Irish "cousin" of the Wreckage, a Peugeot-type from Dublin, however the idea was actually nixed.There was actually plenty much more that must be actually explained to come to the finish line. Fla State wound up having to obtain 85 travel permits for its own gamers Georgia Technology must acquire 70 in overall in between gamers and personnel. Probably one of the most unexpected difficulty the groups dealt with was actually making certain they will have the ability to make use of the brand new innovation made it possible for beginning this period-- coach-to-helmet interaction and apples ipad on the sideline.The headset systems coaches utilize on the sideline in the United States do not work overseas considering that they utilize various radio frequencies. Each institutions must rent out new bodies, and that indicates a various belt pack for instructors to receive utilized to. Fla Condition practiced with them during skirmishes so the instructors can start to acquire a sample of them.Thompson said the universities must secure a number of lines of regularity for the interaction headsets to operate. The iPads demanded sychronisation with Aviva Coliseum as well as nearby suppliers for specific thread collections used to upgrade video clip in real time. The schools have had regular phone calls along with the ACC and different suppliers to see to it whatever prepares to go. Whatever is going to be actually checked Friday.Florida State Sports" The instructors don't such as change. I don't like modification," Thompson mentioned. "Everybody is a creature of of behavior. I wish to walk into the stadium when the staff walks in as well as make sure every thing is actually performed. I don't intend to need to be running around panicking, 'Okay, how are our team heading to manage this?'" The groups underwent various flight terminals to have their packages flown over, all at the path of Aer Lingus, the activity's headline enroller. Fla Condition packed up a truck recently that left behind for Orlando, where its pet crates were actually at that point positioned on payload airplane pallets contacted "biscuit sheets" for worldwide traveling and afterwards soared to Dublin. Georgia Technician possessed its payload take place an airplane to Chicago, and afterwards on to Dublin.Everything soared over gotten there before the teams got in Thursday early morning. Each staff sent out an advance group early to open cages as well as start sorting things for make use of at the lodging or even stadium. Devices managers established their respective storage locker areas for Thursday technique. Moreover, both groups had numerous instances of Powerade and canteen directly transported to both the resort as well as stadium.The hotels were actually selected for their correlations to usual road hotels and resorts. They had to possess huge enough rooms accessible for staff appointments, however likewise food items that sampled like home. Warwick pointed out grits, for instance, were a nonstarter given that the cooks could possibly certainly not prepare them to standard. Fla State players have an affinity for ranch suiting up, A1 steak sauce and Tabasco, items unavailable in Ireland, therefore those details seasonings were packed." The food is the greatest obstacle given that they like what they just like and also they know what they recognize," Warwick mentioned. "Our team made an effort to maintain it as Americanized as achievable." The groups themselves left the USA on Wednesday night, yet even their departures looked various. For residential activity traveling, both groups experience TSA safety and security screening at their corresponding arenas prior to boarding buses and heading to their charter flights.But for a worldwide trip, both staffs should go through the frequent security line at their respective flight terminals. It is something for Fla Condition to undergo its own tiny regional airport terminal in Tallahassee. Yet merely think of the 289-person Georgia Technician journey party pulling up to Concourse F at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta and looking at security.Aer Lingus, the label sponsor of the game, had to receive exclusive permission to safeguard a gateway. Thompson mentioned he has actually been assured there will be actually additional safety streets ready for acquire Georgia Specialist via efficiently. He plans to make use of a "husk body" where he differentiates the gamers right into teams, along with one marked the captain and behind ensuring everyone has their passports.Players are going to be told often approximately perform's and also do n'ts if they are actually bringing carry-ons, consisting of the size of allowable liquids." I can not wait to find when I am actually the last person that goes through the TSA line what all was actually taken throughout that opportunity," Thompson said.Now image this upon appearance: Gamers loafing the luggage slide carousel, waiting for their player devices bags. Those bags had to travel along with them because both crews exercised completely up to their retirement day. So the bags get checked onto the plane upon airport terminal arrival, for pick-up in luggage insurance claim, along with their own private suitcases. For this excursion, Florida State obtained its own gamers customized roller traveling bags. Both crews will have a lightweight practice at the arena after they show up, along with the primary goal to obtain everyone accustomed to the five-hour opportunity change. Georgia Specialist coach Brent Key, that visited Ireland for an activity as a UCF aide in 2014, said he performs not intend to produce the journey any greater than it has to be actually-- drawing from his previous abroad encounter." Our company overcoached those little ones," Key mentioned, pertaining to UCF's 26-24 loss to Penn Condition. "Our experts attempted to give them an encounter. We took all of them to different spots, took them on excursions as well as it was actually only too much stuff when you are actually reviewing there to play soccer game. Perform you understand what brings in a great adventure? Gaining." Therefore, Georgia Specialist are going to fly home after the game as it has a limited turnaround to the observing full week. Considering that Fla Condition plays on a Monday night, coach Mike Norvell determined to have the team remain on Sunday for some sightseeing before going back to Tallahassee.Though that strategy is actually different, preparing the strategies in the lead-up to the activity has actually been identical. The universities have been in continual communication, yet there are going to be anxiety upon arrival, during the activity and also postgame, also. Everything has to be actually repacked for traveling back home, as well as at customizeds Saturday evening. In each cases-- travel to and also coming from-- both colleges need to depend greatly on folks they have never ever satisfied to get the job done." Anytime and every single time I travel, I stress if my bag is actually going to receive certainly there, so you undoubtedly think about that," Thompson claimed. "You are actually moving virtually 300 people at once. So you just have to see to it it is actually correct and also ideal.".