Might be useful:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/192044586/Hoff-Paper
Document is a newspaper clipping, but the interesting part is the uploaded filename and description. Both suggest BE may have been referred to as Hoff/Hoffy. If you google "The Great Hoffy Incident" you can watch a Youtube video of what looks like BE flying a drone. The video is not uploaded by him. Video ends with the now amusing text "I didn't do it !!!"
From the Gosnells SHS 1985 Facebook page, the same picture which lists what people aspired to be also listed their nicknames, and BE had "bogsy". In the same group they started talking about recent events and someone referred to BE as "boggs".
So two potential nicknames which may or may not be useful to anyone looking for digital footprints on the net.