But this should look and feel like a regular home game, Curry said, complete with Osceola and horse Renegade planting a flaming spear in the field before kickoff. Some of the tradition surrounding a Florida State home game won’t be staged, primarily activities that happen outside the stadium in the 24 hours leading up to kickoff. “As good as anyone could have possibly hoped.” “With everybody helping, it all came together really seamlessly,” Nickell said. Tallahassee still wasn’t considered an option during a Wednesday evening conference call, he said, but that changed Thursday morning. The Broncos were working on plans beginning Tuesday to play Friday night or Saturday afternoon in Jacksonville, Director of Football Operations Joel Schneider said. The Broncos will have to wait around Saturday after the game because their charter airplane will pick them up in Tallahassee at the same time originally scheduled for Jacksonville. The first place he stopped for gas didn’t have any left.īut logistically, he said the trip came together well. Joe Nickell, Boise State’s associate athletic director for communications, said one lightning strike shook his car. They practiced Friday at Bartram Trail High south of Jacksonville - reserve quarterback Riley Smith’s old school - but had to wait out a lightning delay. The Broncos decided to stick to their original schedule Thursday, flying to Jacksonville and staying there.
Some members of the travel party will stay elsewhere, though. Florida State also helped Boise State get buses.īoise State’s entire team was able to be accommodated by a single hotel. The grounds crew began work that day and finished Friday.įlorida State also had to schedule law enforcement and security personnel prep the concession stands sell game tickets (at $10 each online) process refunds for those who bought Jacksonville tickets acquire hotel space for both teams and confirm that the stadium electronics were in working order because of construction. On Thursday morning, the field wasn’t even painted. “The one thing about it, you can’t execute something like this within a 48-hour window unless you have everybody working in concert.”
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