Matt Davison had to keep ordering room service.

He did it on that Thursday, and then more times that Friday, and then again on Saturday, the first Saturday of this past December. This was not done out of preference, understand. He could not be seen.

For a guy like him, being cramped in this space was a most difficult task. He will tell you he is not a homebody. He likes to be on the move. There needs to be a darn good reason to basically lock himself in a hotel room in Orlando for 48 hours.

How’s this for a reason? Waiting there to pick up your longtime friend to come back home with you on that airplane and help rescue something you care so much about.

And, really, Davison had been waiting for this to happen longer than those two days, hadn’t he?

It was back around the 2009 Big 12 Championship game when he had first publicly said he thought Scott Frost would be the next Nebraska head football coach.

He wasn’t right about that even if he maybe should have been. That’s OK. “I think God’s plan was probably better than mine,” Davison says.

Now eight years after he had first offered the prediction of Frost coming home, Davison was pacing in his hotel room, wearing out the carpet as he watched his friend try to win a championship with a team donning colors foreign to a native Nebraskan.

“I wanted them to finish it off. I wanted everybody to know that that coaching staff and Scott Frost had put everything into every game, and that there wasn’t a distraction,” Davison says. “So I felt like winning that game kind of put a bow on things.”

Central Florida and Memphis kept trading touchdowns, with many college football fans riveted to the American Athletic Conference Championship like it was a showdown between two classic powers.

As another longtime Frost friend, Gerrod Lambrecht, watched the drama unfold from the sideline, he received a message in the fourth quarter: Everyone now knew what he knew.

Reports had broken the news right there across everyone’s television screens: Frost was going to be the head Husker.

“One of the strangest days I’ve ever had in my career,” says Lambrecht, now Frost’s chief of staff at Nebraska. “A whirlwind. A lot of things that didn’t quite go the way that we thought it would from the roll out of Scott being announced as the head coach…”

This might be a good spot to interject: The Husker247 series that follows over the next several days will attempt to show how Frost’s staff found exactly how connected they were even when not everything did go just as planned. It’s the story of how a bunch of coaches have gone from co-workers to feeling like family.

“My wife laughs at me all the time. She says, 'You don’t go to work,'” says Husker outside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator Jovan Dewitt. “I’m like, ‘No, you’re right, I get to coach football with a bunch of my buddies.’ It’s a group of guys that I would go hang out with anywhere.”

Of all the stories to be told about this staff as they begin Year 1 at Nebraska, isn’t the most remarkable one still this: How the heck did they ALL end up in Nebraska? That just doesn’t happen.

Then it did.

“I felt that ultimately if I would have stayed at UCF, I would have let the rest of the guys down,” says Husker tight ends coach Sean Beckton, who played at UCF and is in the Hall of Fame at UCF and coached for 19 years at UCF.

It was trust like that built in less than 24 months for a staff that came together from a great many different backgrounds. What follows over the days ahead will be an oral history of how it all worked to get them to this point, chasing championships in Lincoln, with everything told through the words of staff members based off both one-on-one interviews and statements they have made since becoming Husker coaches in December.

Yeah, since that Saturday in December.

Davison finally got to come out of hiding in his hotel room after the news broke.

In the hours after UCF had won a dramatic championship in double overtime, coaches began to trickle into that same hotel where he was staying. Davison had been working in that hotel room. He had contracts for coaches to sign and clothes to start turning their wardrobes red.

“I pretty much had backpacks with stuff so they could go out and represent Nebraska the next day. Literally the next morning,” says Davison, now Nebraska's associate athletic director for football. “Had all kinds of Adidas stuff for each day. Had their names on every backpack. It was all laid out."

He laughs recalling the scene. "I have it documented pretty well with pictures.”

There are some stories that they still won’t share in great detail. Better kept between the men who were there on the journey. Maybe some day…

And there are some things that words maybe don’t do justice, like Davison explaining being on a plane heading back home with his good friend, just like he had hoped during some stressful weeks in October and November.

“Literally on the plane we’re talking about the things that need to be done,” Davison says.

They were tired and exhilarated all in one.

And the story is just beginning.