Gabbert is criminally underrated by Mizzou fans. As a junior, he won ten games with far worse players than Chase won eight with his senior year. He never reached the ceiling he should have, in part because Yost was a terrible QB and OC, and that interception against Iowa left a lot of people with a sour taste, but he's certainly a much better player than Lock has been at this point, or Franklin or Mauk ever were.
Cross should have been fired, but the fact that a HC needed to fire his DC 14 games into his tenure is a bad omen. Odom increasingly looks like a guy who isn't prepared to coach or recruit at this level. Of course, he was hired by Mack Rhoades, so that shouldn't be surprising. Everything he touches turns to shit.
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