Nah, I'm not having that.
He took over a Barnsley side who'd won 6(!) the previous season, had one of the worst Championship defences and only scored 33 goals. They sold their ever present CB, their two first choice strikers (both proven at being decent L1 players), trimmed 15 or so from the first team squad and built a new one whose best performers were one from FGR and one who'd spent most of his time out on loan at Accrington and Morecambe. They'll be a decent paying side, but I'd suggest Ipswich, Wednesday, Posh, Oxford, Bolton, Derby spent more. Given the circumstances, resources and resources only doesn't sort that mess out.
And that's before you start looking at his spell at Cheltenham where they went from lower mid-table to getting promoted to L1 and then comfortably safe in L1 in their first season.
His win ratio isn't a million miles off Cowley.