Alabama poaches top Kentucky assistant coach

The rich continue to get richer.

An SEC coaching shuffle has seen Nick Saban lose two of his top assistant defensive coaches (Kirby Smart, Mel Tucker) to Georgia. As a means to fill Tucker's spot, Saban has successfully targeted Kentucky assistant coach Derrick Ansley.

Ansley -- recently named as Co-Defensive Coordinator under Mark Stoops in Lexington -- has been hired as Alabama's defensive backs coach.

It's a homecoming of sorts for Ansley. He was a graduate assistant at Alabama during the 2010-11 seasons. Ansley is also an Alabama native, having played his college ball at Troy.

The hire is a blow for Kentucky in a number of ways. Ansley is a hungry, young coach with terrific detail for the game. The secondary for UK has gotten steadily better under his leadership -- improving annually in each of the three years he's coached at Kentucky. Not only that, but he's known as a dynamic recruiter.

Yet again, Alabama and Saban are proving why they're truly at the top of the college football mountain at this current time.