Nick Saban made headlines a week ago when he was asked about the presidential election and said that he didn’t realize last Tuesday was election day because his mind was on preparing for Alabama’s next game.

“To be honest with you, I didn’t even know yesterday was Election Day,” Saban said last week. “It was so important to me that I didn’t even know it was happening. We’re focused on other things here. I don’t really make political comments. So if I say I like one person, that means that everybody that voted for the other person doesn’t like me. So, why would I do that?”

He later clarified that he sent in an absentee ballot, but that hasn’t satisfied one of the Crimson Tide coach’s professional peers.

Coastal Carolina coach Joe Moglia called Saban’s original statement “disrespectful to his team, to his school, to his state, to the country” at his Tuesday press conference, according to Alan Blondin of The Sun News:

“The reason I’m disappointed, No. 1, he’s the highest-paid public employee that exists in the United States, but it’s far greater than that for me,” Moglia said following his weekly press conference. “The threat of terrorism is probably going to be with us for the next couple generations. So it’s the military that has to protect us, and I don’t think ever before in the history of mankind has the world needed the economic and military leadership of the United States.

“… In a democracy we get a chance to pick those leaders. So to pick the leader of the free world last Tuesday was the most important thing going on in the world that day, and to not realize that and not to be aware of that frankly is disrespectful to his team, to his school, to his state, to the country. There’s still a piece of me that can’t believe he even said that.”

Saban has visited the White House five times as the head coach of college football’s national champion.