For a road game during the regular season, the Virginia Tech football team’s training staff travels with about four trunks of equipment.

Postseason is different.  The Hokies are in the midst of a weeklong stay in Atlanta, where they’ll play Georgia in the Chick-fil-A Bowl at the Georgia Dome on Saturday night, and that presented logistical challenges for head trainer Mike Goforth.

For a bowl game, Goforth said this morning at Georgia Tech’s practice fields, “we’ll take about nine different trunks, because you’ve got to set up a hotel training room and a practice-facility training room, and then you combine the two for a game-day training room.

“You got to bring all your Gatorade with you, everything.  Now the tricky thing is, for a bowl, is who sponsors it.  For instance, we’re a Gatorade school, but this is a Powerade bowl, so we can’t use our Gatorade stuff on the sideline.  We’ve got to get [Powerade] from them.”

Tech is staying at the Marriott Marquis, with whose staff Goforth talked regularly during preparations for the team’s trip south.

“You got to do a lot of coordination with the hotel staff about getting ice down there daily, fresh linens, pillows, that kind of stuff for your training room,” Goforth said.  “And Internet access, because all of our records now are electronic.

“There’s quite a bit of planning, but this is my ninth one, so you just kind of change the names on things, and it’s pretty well organized.”

The Hokies’ 12-person training team in Atlanta includes two doctors, three graduate assistants and four students, Goforth said.

For the Hokies’ strength-and-conditioning staff, the bowl experience is less complicated.  Virginia Tech’s players have been using the weight room at Georgia Tech’s Bobby Dodd Stadium.  It’s not often that an ACC team gets extended use of the facilities on a conference rival’s campus, but the Yellow Jackets have been very accommodating.

“This is nice of Georgia Tech to allow us to come here, and they’ve got really nice facilities here,” Hokies coach Frank Beamer said.

-- Jeff White