... in his first season as a starter, Blaine Gabbert has a cross to bare in 2010.

The latest standout in an impressive lineage of Missouri quarterbacks, the 6'5", 240-pound Gabbert is an NFL prototype whose professional prospects are sure to be dissected as soon as next year.

But for Gabbert, who is technically still a pubescent sophomore, the focus is on making the leap that so often defines the progression of an effective quarterback, so as to provide an encore to his concerto of 2009 that included at times playing on one good ankle.

That is what MU fans are expecting. After all, Tiger loyalists have become spoiled in recent past with excellence under (or, in the case of MU's spread offense, I should say "behind") center.

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