Scott Frost gives detailed explanation on plans, goals for Ireland trip

Planning a trip to Ireland for one person is complicated enough — doing it for an entire football team like Scott Frost and his team at Nebraska has been sounds like a travel agent’s worst nightmare.

Speaking with the media, Frost elaborated on the Cornhusker’s plans for their Week 0 trip to Dublin to face Northwestern, and his goals for Nebraska while they’re there.

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“We’re excited now. We’ve been in the middle of fall camp for a long time. It can seem at the middle and end of fall camp like you’re just practicing, and you’re stuck in a rut of practicing. I think our players are really excited that we’ve kind of turned our attention now, and it’s officially game week,” stated Frost. “This trip has been a long time coming. Couple years and a lot more than that on preparation for this.

“We’ve been talking to our players a lot about handling this the right way and making sure it’s a business trip, but if we have enough work done and feel confident enough in what we’re doing going over there, I think the more confident we are about that the more we can just enjoy another country. The culture over there, and still focus on the things that we need to get done while we’re over there.”

Additionally, Frost made sure to recognize some of the behind the scenes workers who have put a boatload of time into the expedition.

“I want to point a few people out. Andrew and Austin with our ops group have been — I can’t tell you how much work they’ve had to do between airplanes and passports and hotels and cultural things. It’s been a lot of work put in, and we appreciate them. Jay Terry has a mountain of things to do too, to make sure everybody has what they need over there and we don’t forget anything. Mark Meyer and his staff have been unbelievable. Matt Harren and the video staff have to make sure everything’s over there and functioning well,” stated Frost. “So there’s a lot that’s gone into this, and our goal is to make sure that players can focus on just football and having a good time over there.

“I think this is going to be an unbelievable experience. I would say a majority of our team has never been overseas. I don’t know how many will again, hopefully a lot of them. But what a great country to go visit and see, and hope we get a lot out of this. The game obviously being the priority.”

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Moreover, Frost isn’t hoping to have a “Home Alone” moment — the Cornhuskers leader emphasized that his team believes they’ve crossed every T and dotted every I.

“We’ve had more conversations that I can remember about this and the right way to do it,” added Frost. “I don’t think there’s — if you traveled to Europe — I don’t think there’s a perfect way to do it. You’re not going to feel perfect when you get over there. Some of the conversations with NFL teams that have gone over and played in London have been important. Our NAPL lab here and their expertise have been really valuable to us too, so I want to give them a shoutout. Flying overnight, I think the priority is trying to make sure guys get to sleep on the plane.

“So we’re going to black it out about an hour after takeoff and try to get as much as we can. Then land and see how long everything takes when we’re taking them through customs, and going straight to the stadium to get a little workout and knock some rust off. Then head into the hotel, give them a little down time and then we have dinner and a little cultural thing, then we’re going to try to get them back to sleep. The goal is to try to make sure when they wake up on Wednesday, they’ve had a really good night sleep on Tuesday night and they’re ready to kind of pick up where we left off here.”

Nevertheless, the focus remains on the game — Nebraska has their eyes on starting the season 1-0.

“We hope we remembered everything. Anytime like this, if we we’re playing down the road somewhere we’d send somebody back or get something there, but we’ve been thinking about this for a long time. I don’t think we’re going to get caught without a mouthpiece or anything like that. But you just never know what’s going to happen,” stated Frost. “Jay was telling me some of our crates for equipment went over there, and all but two of them had a metal bottom, which was fine. Two of them had a wooden bottom of the pallet, and they couldn’t ship out of Chicago, so they had to address that. It’s little things like that, that you can’t anticipate. I think everything we could’ve thought of, we thought of.

“Again, our goal is to make sure the players don’t have to think about any of that. They can just have fun and focus on football.”