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UNM Special Assistant Dave Pilipovich, left, talks with assistant coach Dan McHale before a game last week at Dixie State University’s Burns Arena in St. George, Utah. (Courtesy UNM Athletics)
Kelly Pilipovich figured her husband’s debit card had been hacked.
When the wife of Dave Pilipovich, the longtime Air Force head coach who this season has spent the past couple months living out of hotels as the Special Assistant to the Head Coach for the UNM Lobo men’s basketball team, saw last month’s statement, she called her husband and had a question.
“What are all these charges for $2 or $1.50 to a company in New Jersey?” recalled Dave Pilipovich of the recent phone call. “I said, ‘Kelly, $1.50 for the wash and $2 for the dryer. I’m washing clothes pretty much every night or every other night. … Our like fifth hotel we were in this year finally took a debit card. (Before), I