A 1953 graduate of Georges Township High School (now part of the Albert Gallatin School District), Bacha went to Waynesburg College in pursuit of a career in teaching and coaching. While there, he played both football and baseball. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Studies in May, 1957.

Bacha accepted an offer from the recently-formed EF school system that summer. His first job was a Combined Studies (English, social studies and spelling) position at the junior high school. He also served as the head football and assistant basketball coach.

After three years, he moved to the high school where he became a World Cultures teacher and assistant football coach on the staff of George Hays. He would later serve as an assistant basketball coach under John Kruper and Wally Gibbons, and was head baseball coach for one year. While at EF, he earned his master.s equivalency in education.

Two experiences stand out during his tenure at EF. Academically, he was part of a team teaching program, the first of its kind in western Pennsylvania, which involved group instruction in the auditorium, twice a and week along with classroom follow-up. Athletically, he was part of the school.s first conference football championship in 1966.

In 1969, he took his talents to Peters Township High School where he became head football coach in addition to continuing to teach World Cultures. His 1972 team was the first undefeated conference championship in the school.s history and participated in the WPIAL playoffs for the first time in school history. His team.s accomplishments earned him the Blackhills Conference Coach of the Year honor.

Five years later, Bacha moved to Southmoreland High School in the same capacities . head football coach and World Cultures teacher. His 1979 football team was the first in school history to win a conference title and to play in the WPIAL playoffs. He was named Keystone Conference Coach of the Year and WPIAL AA Coach of the Year by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. A year later, he retired from coaching to devote all his skills to the athletic director position he had been appointed to in 1979. He remained in that position until his retirement in 1987.

Bacha's special skills as a coach and teacher were acknowledged by one of his former players at Southmoreland H.S., Russ Grimm, when Grimm was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010.

He and his wife of 54 years, Audrey, have three daughters . Sharon, Denise and Lisa, all of whom moved to Arizona between the years of 1982 and 1985. The Bachas moved to Arizona in 1997 to be reunited with their family. They enjoy spending time with their daughters and four grandchildren (two college-age and 11-year-old twins), traveling and visiting with friends who travel to Arizona to reminisce about .the good old days..