re: When does the "University of Mississippi Black Bears" become common parlance?

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it seems like Ole miss would have stayed away from the word 'black' given the whole reason for the change of mascot was over the perception of racism with the old mascot however, i like the black bear mascot in general. Clemson actually had a black bear on campus last week

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I am still a tad bit surprised the bear won. In all honesty, the term bear is never used. That is just the mascot. It should be referenced about as much as people reference elephants for Bama.

If they could revote today, the Landshark would win.

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it seems like Ole miss would have stayed away from the word 'black' given the whole reason for the change of mascot was over the perception of racism with the old mascot

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That's the irony about the whole thing. The "black" part was very much intended to be about race. It was the "in your face" moment for the PC crowd to the perceived racist students.

The only thing Tuberville did that was classless in seeking more money was to lie about it to his players. That shows no character ( boo hoo), but that is rampant in football.
Ole Miss was on probation for part of his reign as head coach, and these kids worked hard for Tuberville who told them he would be there for the long haul. He told them he was not going to Auburn then absconded before the scoreboard lights went out in Oxford in his last game. Didn't even say good bye.... ( boo hoo) good riddance at that point.

A microphone was left on after Tubb's last Egg Bowl thrashing by MSU, and he was heard saying to all the coaches, "let's get the hell out of here." They boarded and airplane and never came back.
OM was facing a bowl game with no coach. The players were a bit disillusioned, but good kids who prevailed in spite of Tubbs. Regardless of the fact that anyone would go for more money, Tuberville sneaked out of town like a slimeball. He lied to his players...Pretty common place this lying thing today.
However, Ole Miss won its bowl game and pretty much went on to bigger and better. OM beat Auburn at Auburn with some of his former players....SWEEET!!!! He even tried to be friendly with his former players in warmups. They were much LESS than polite.

Didn't win the NC at Auburn. Promoted to Who the heck is TEXAS TECH ( how the mighty fall)...don't know where he is now. If he comes to Oxford, a pine box might be STILL be waiting! Nah! Not worth the effort.

He burned a bridge in Oxford and crashed that Gambler's Riverboat ...BIG TIME, but to be honest, he is not really thought about that much anymore.

I'll give him credit for bringing a little life back to the program. He was personable as long as you remembered it was mostly BS. His call in shows were fun. His riverboat gambler style of play was gutsy and fortunately worked a lot of the time. Football was fun again for a while.

His money mentor big bank man Bobby Lowder met with some bad luck too. He is no longer the 'money talks" at Auburn, is he? Just goes to show you that fame and fortune can be fickle and fleeting.
Tubbs unceremoniously lost his glitter at Auburn, too, and had to move on. How the mighty fall.

Our shorthand mascot name is the Louisiana Black.


Thanks, Dan Jones.

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I hate Dan Jones

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No need. He has paid dearly for his activism. I followed him pretty closely when he first got to Ole Miss and thought it mighty peculiar the fights he chose to fight. He was just carrying on what Khayat started though.

They're the Rebels. No one is forced to enroll there.

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No one is forced to enroll there.

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Agreed. There are plenty of feeder programs for those kids who didn't get in to Texas A&M University or University of Texas - Austin; it isn't hard to matriculate. But unfortunately, a lot of those kids see the huge scholarships Mississippi is throwing towards the Republic of Texas's dumbest applicants and they can't say no.


Sad, imo.

"Eat shite and die in a fire" are not exactly terms of endearment.

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Why did I post that? What was the actual reasoning behind it?

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Because you don't like miss dixie and you are being hypocritical. Plus, you find the colonel to be an unnecessary divisive distraction that Ole Miss fans are deeply divided on. You would like to get past all of that. However, Col Reb simply was an embodiment of the term "Rebel" and you know that as well as I do.