Can Capel win without Blake? That is as stupid as asking if Billy Tubbs could win without Tisdale in his first 5 seasons.Take WT wins out of Billys first 5 years and take wins out of Capels five seasons. Tubbs was 115-49 in his first 5 seasons with WT for 3 years().Without WT he is 31-29(15.5 wins a season). Capel is 95-67,with Blake for two years.In the three years without Blake(42-50),14 wins a season.Factor in Tubbs built in non D-1 wins ,it is pretty close to a dead heat.
The difference is that Billy Tubbs actually inherited a much worse team that Capel. Notice the improvement from year to year. He didn't collapse in year 4 and year 5 to be worse than year 1. I remember in the first year, Billy said we would run and shoot and that next year we would run and score. That is exactly what happened. To compare Capel with Billy is a joke because he kept winning after Waymon left.
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