Former Baylor coach Dave Bliss hired at Las Vegas high school

Inexplicable as it is, former Baylor head coach Dave Bliss has been hired to coach at a Las Vegas high school.

Over his run as Division I men’s basketball coach from 1975-2003, Dave Bliss won 543 games and had a .613 win percentage. But a scandal at Baylor surrounding the murder of a player by another player and an attempt by Bliss to paint the victim as a drug dealer soiled any on-court success. Eventually, the scandal led to a 10-year “show cause” penalty from the NCAA for Bliss in 2005.

Bliss spent the last two seasons as head coach at Southwestern Christian (Oklahoma) in the NAIA. But he resigned in April after a Showtime documentary aired, chronicling the scandal and cover-up at Baylor.

It seems unlikely Bliss would ever find another coaching job, due at least in part to age (74 on Sept. 20). But not so fast. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Bliss has been hired as athletic director and boy’s basketball coach at Calvary Chapel Christian School.

One teacher at the school, September Wilson, willingly went on the record to support and confirm Bliss’ hiring.

"“Yes we have,” said September Wilson, a coach and teacher at Calvary Chapel. “He is our athletic director. He has been brought in by our superintendent.”"

Wilson said she did her research on Bliss, and suggested others do the same before rushing to judgement.

"“There’s a great documentary he’s put out there on his testimony, and that is the one thing everybody needs to see right now. That he’s a man of Christ,” Wilson said."

Wilson added that her daughter attended a basketball camp put on by Bliss, and referred to it as “great experience.”

The scandal at Baylor was on another, unprecedented level. But Bliss was linked to paying players while head coach at SMU before that, and he just can’t seem to avoid controversy.

Bruce Feldman of Fox Sports and Sports Illustrated sub-tweeted it best.

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Bliss keeps moving down the coaching ladder, from Division I to NAIA and now to high school. A similar ending is surely coming, with Bliss resigning or being fired for doing something wrong, naïve or just plain stupid.