There is no way Castellano would have made Gotti an underboss--Gotti's loyalty to Neil, and the drug dealing, were tremendous liabilities to Paul, especially since he was facing a RICO trial. And, there is no way a co-underboss situation would have worked between Gotti and Bilotti, whose loyalty to Paul was unquestioned.
As for DeMeo: If Gotti had the balls and resourcefulness to whack Castellano without the Commission's approval, he would have been able to deal with DeMeo.
Actually its pretty much a fact Gotti was scared shitless of the demeo crew. Gene Gotti was caught on wiretap saying that he wanted no part of the demeo hit contract. Also Castellano was at his most vulnerable when he was killed. He was facing indictments,the demeo crew was no more, and frank decicco and sammy turned on him so its not like gotti had the balls to do it on his own
