gm hei no spark?

Would a bad pickup coil cause no spark from coil wire to distributor? Pulled coil wire and near ground. Crank... No sparky arcy?
Of course, as there is nothing telling the module to fire without a working magnetic pickup coil and a vane going by it to create the field that makes the volt or so that the module needs to see to break the ground to the coil causing it's field to collapse and generate the spark.:D