"Scott's just a guy who knows how to lead players," Davison said. "The players believed in what he was pitching to them. And once they started to see the results — like, ‘Oh, this is how hard we have to work,’ or, ‘Oh, that's how you have to prepare’ — all the things Scott talked about from the time he got here last December, unfortunately, they had to learn some of those things the hard way.”