Aaah ... Yeah I don't know too much about him (maybe someone who does can chime in ) but I believe that from what I have read and seen, Brian Gundy is one of the few breeders working with selectively breeding "normals" for high-color, etc.. (Not a very common practice with ball pythons -- yet -- but it's the basis of quite a bit of blood python breeding.)

I'm sure if you were to breed one of those high-gold normals to, say, a nice-looking pastel, you'd get some phenomenal-looking pastels, but just breeding a high-gold normal to a plain, dark normal is going to get some pretty normal looking normals.

Basically, a couple of generations of poor breeding choices can undo what it takes many generations of careful selection to obtain. That's why (from what I know of Mr. Gundy) that animal was $100 for a normal male -- not because he was trying to pass it off as some "new morph," but because it was the result of probably several generations of carefully selecting high-gold "normals" for breeding.