The always quotable Charles Barkley appeared on Dan Patrick’s radio show on Thursday to discuss SEC football, among other things. In a move that would make most Auburn graduates like himself pinch their noses, Barkley called Alabama’s Nick Saban “the greatest football coach in history” and said that the Auburn family has an “inferiority complex” because of it.

In a transcription courtesy of AL.com, Barkley said:

“We have an inferiority complex because the greatest football coach in history is over in Tuscaloosa,” Barkley told The Dan Patrick Show. “I think Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach in history over there in Tuscaloosa.

“But Auburn is the greatest school. Once you go there, you are a part of a family, a fraternity. Even when I got back now, it’s the most amazing thing. When I travel around the country, the world, we say ‘War Eagles.’ It is pretty special.

“War Eagle is like I love you.”

Though Barkley made his living on the hardwood and still ranks as the best Auburn hooper of all time, he’s been known to dabble in college football talk with his cohost, LSU’s Shaquille O’Neal:

He’s also proven on a couple of occasions that he’s not scared of upsetting the people of his home state:

Though sometimes crass and always unfiltered, Chuck is known for his honesty and making America laugh almost as hard as Shaq did in the clip above.