After reading some articles and the comments about this in a few places (yes, I know it's a horrible idea), it seems like the ONLY people who support this have AT BEST a "used to root for the football team" connection to the actual university and just have an axe to grind about the mascot/flag/really weird generalized lost cause issues.
So good job, jerks. Making me feel bad for actual Ole Miss people.
The classic "bad PR news" move of doing it on a Friday afternoon.
And doing this right after he got back to work from recovering from cancer? GTFOOH. Enjoy Pappy O'Daniel's idiot son as your new chancellor.