Pat Dye is at it again.

The former Auburn coach recently suggested his Tigers should be in the SEC East, while Missouri makes sense in the West.

Now, Dye, who led the Tigers from 1981-1992, said the Auburn Tigers should compete with rival Alabama on the field, even if it can't match the tradition of the Crimson Tide.

"Everybody in Alabama tends to gauge a program by what's going on in Tuscaloosa," Dye told The Paul Finebaum Show on Tuesday. "I was there. I don't look at our situation at Auburn comparing it to Alabama because you can't compare the two.

"We could play football for another 500 years and we couldn't catch up with the tradition Alabama has got, but that doesn't mean we can't have a good football program and a strong football program. It doesn't mean we can't have football teams that recruit good enough to beat Alabama on occasion."

The Tigers have won just two Iron Bowls since 2008.

"There's no question we can win here at Auburn," he said.

Last month, Dye had the SEC talking when he suggested Auburn should move to the West. In fact, he said Auburn shouldn't let Alabama dictate what the Tigers do.

"I'm fixing to make a statement that won't be a popular statement, I guarantee you," Dye said last month. "I'd rather see Auburn in the East than us play Alabama every year. I know the Iron Bowl, (and) I'm not the least bit afraid of Auburn playing Alabama. We can play them on a rotating basis like everyone else."

Dye said Auburn recruits in Alabama, Georgia and Florida, so being in the East is a natural fit. He pointed out the Tigers don't recruit Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

"We don't need to let Alabama dictate what we do at Auburn," Dye said. "That's what happened when they divided the teams up in the conference."

Check out the full interview here.