No he didn't. Vince hasn't created "good shyt, pal" material in decades. And we can't forget that Sami involvement with the bloodline was going to make him look like a fukking goofy R - Truth status. Everyone knows how things end with Vince.
It was after Hunter took over when everyone realized that this story had legs and we started to get call backs. Something which we never got from Vince because he thought the audience was stupid to remember.
By now we would've gotten Otis as the new replacement and ran back the story again