Ole Miss mascot still confuses some staff, students - The Oxford Eagle

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Ole Miss mascot still confuses some staff, students - The Oxford Eagle

By Colleen Sewell and Jayson Kern UM Journalism Students   Few things get an Ole Miss fan arguing faster than a discussion of the team’s mascot. Over the past 20-plus years, the University of Mississippi has had three official mascots. Almost all of them have garnered both positive and negative reactions – including Colonel Reb, which was the official sideline mascot from 1979 until 2003. In 2010 the university replaced him with a new on-field m…