Name your biggest complaint from this season

There must be some in House issues or procedures that need to be fixed. Nico Leaving and Boo doing his thing. Total distractions from the start more than likely. What's disappointing if true which appears to be is JA making the comments at the end of season about practices. You practice like you play or you play like you practice. Either way it must be a problem.
 
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Depth overall but specifically on defense. I would also like them to utilize the transfer portal more.

Maybe stop spending so much NIL on hotshot young QB's and spread that around a bit.
 
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That Heupel let both Nico and Carter pull a Kelly Washington and disrespect not only Heupel but the program as well. Massive hit in the respect department and it certainly changed this fans view of our coach.
 
Our kicker single handidly lost us two games.

That’s a good start.
Not sure his name or if he's still got eligibility, but that Ga Tech kicker who calmly ran onto the field with no time outs and booted the game winner against Clemson as time expired certainly impressed me. He'd get a portal offer from me.
 
Same as previous seasons. His offense tends to disappear after halftime. He either cannot or will not correct it.
This and defense SUCKS. Get these fixed and we can overcome bad clock management more times than not. You'd think he'd have a staff member tell him when he needs to call a timeout if he's just HEUPER focused on play calling...
 
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The fact they watched those safeties all year and did zero to try something different in personnel. It was insane.
 
Biggest "complaint", as in just one... It would have to be the inability to control the line of scrimmage from either side of the ball. Yes, we had a wonderful time against teams with losing records, but good teams? Not so much.
 
I feel like I can’t complain about this, as it’s more just disappointment. But I feel like we had a chance to have a good secondary going into the year, and due to injuries to our best two corners and Boo Carter’s ineptitude, we just didn’t.
 
Capitalizing after forcing turnovers . We were not aggressive enough at several points throughout the year. The most glaring is the UGA game. We could’ve put that away and we played too conservatively.

The defense was hamstrung by injuries and a guy who was not invested on the backend . That’s something that shouldn’t be arguable, for some reason, some people still do. That said, it’s been the same issues that have plagued our defense for a little bit now. We are predictable schematically, we are slow at linebacker and safety and we take poor angles. If you’re gonna be slow at least be in the right damn place, Will Brooks FTW. I could game plan us right now, and all I would do is run counters, misdirection and mesh routes . We don’t have to be a lot better, but just good enough to get off the field on third down more frequently and to not be out of position against athletic teams .
 
I’ll name two and my two are really everyone’s two when you think of it.
1)Tackling
2)Discipline

We’re penalized a lot for stupid penalities and we give up a ton of yards after initial contact. Fix those two and this team is in the playoffs.
 
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No firm criteria.

Personally mine would be in-game and clock management issues from Heupel. However, plenty of good choices out there for this
Not a complaint of the team, coaches or school.
More a complaint of the NCAA and the legal system that has created this monstrosity of a system called college football.
Living out of state i always took my kids to 1-2 games a year. Now would like to do the same for my grandkids. Costs of tickets, parking , hotels would cost in the 1000's for a single game now.
I did take them to the Ms State game in Starkville this year . Cost of 7 tickets was $800 not counting parking and hotels.
Not for me as much, i had season tickets for years and loved every minute.
My regret is that the average working class family can no longer attend games. Tennessee and college football as a whole is going to lose an entire generation of fans if the cost explosion is not brought under control.
 
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