From a fellow lurker, thanks for posting that Woodstork, and please post more often. The information itself was interesting, but you have really good takes that are worth reading.
Rivals has that guy as the #20 WR, and his offer list included Bama, Georgia, and about 25 Power 5 schools total. And then I watched this:
If the guy was also academically and goal oriented, then how the hell could we not have wanted him anyway? It's not like we haven't been taking fliers on WR projects.
Even if we didn't want him anyway, that is a jackass thing to say to a recruit. There are plenty of ways to process a recruit that would not require you to say something that ignorant.
I can possibly bend my mind around the idea that Gonzales was attempting to flatter Redding by implying that he was SEC ready, but that his delivery fell flat. But it doesn't matter. Either way he epic failed in that interaction, like you and others said. And if he said that and meant it, he sucks as a position coach too.
The probability of the mom lying seems extremely low. If the bag man got them and she felt the need to tell you a story, it wouldn't be that specific. Especially not the build up about his academic aspirations, being highly interested in UF and liking Mullen. Even if she made up what Billy said, she must have hated him to throw him under the bus like that. She'd have to have some weird personality disorder to want to go that in depth with a lie to a stranger at the airport.
For BG to come out of this not needing to be fired, it would have to be something like this. The mom wasn't present when her son was having the conversation, and in reality, he doesn't really want to go to a harder academic school. He wants to mail it in at the U and maybe they promised him a life of ease (off the field) and whores. But Alabama and UGA could have offered him that, and UGA needing WRs, would have.