If you’ve read this site over the years or even followed the Kentucky/Louisville rivalry as a casual fan, you know about the bromance between Pat Forde and Rick Pitino. Anyone who’s been to Molly Malone’s in the past decade knows the two are close, which is why it was surprising to see Forde break the stripper scandal story on Friday afternoon. While you could argue the timing of the release — late on a Friday afternoon — was in the Cards’ favor, both Tom Jurich and Pitino seemed caught off guard it, Pitino looking downright shaken in his press conference.