Yesterday, Ole Miss commit and five-star champion best of the best wide receiver Laquon Treadwell posted a picture on Instagram of what was allegedly his hand and some cash. Ignoring what was certainly a violation of the Instagram terms of use, which only allows for pictures of food or decaying buildings, the people of the internet immediately began screaming of a payment from Ole Miss.
Because how else would a teenager, especially a black teenager, get his hands on that much cash unless it came from a rich man, nay, a rich WHITE man who is associated with Ole Miss. Yay, slightly-more-than-casual racism!
Treadwell deleted the picture shortly after posting it because someone who is smarter than a teenager, which is pretty much everyone who is not a teenager, probably told him that posting pictures of cash for a large group of strangers to see is not the best of ideas. I can only imagine the wonderful, eloquent messages he's received through Twitter and Instagram since yesterday (though I hope most of the Instagram comments were "WHERE IS THE FOOD?").
Despite the oceans of possibilities as to how Treadwell got the cash (assuming it was him), people remain convinced it came straight from Hugh Freeze's wallet or the bank account of an older, WHITE Ole Miss booster. This, of course, cannot be true because of one simple piece of evidence.
At Ole Miss, $100 bills are like coins under the couch cushions. And Laquon Treadwell is considered the best wide receiver prospect in the country. You don't go giving couch cushion coins to someone that good.
No, for a player that good, we break out the $3,000 bills. Never heard of a $3,000 bill? That's because you and your school are poor.
The $3,000 bill is the rarest of all the bills and features a picture of Dickie Scruggs and Trent Lott laughing at a cocktail party. It came into existence during the Dubya Bush administration because good folks take care of other good folks. How do you think Ed Orgeron's 2006 recruiting class was in the top 15?
So stop thinking that poor people's currency came from Ole Miss. If Treadwell posted a picture of money that came from Ole Miss, you'd see him gambling it at the roulette table on the gaming floor of our private Airbus A380.
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