Max Good

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Max Good
Good in March 1976
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Loyola Marymount
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1973-1976 1981-1989 1990–2000 2000–2001 2001–2008 2008–2009 2009–present	Madison High School Eastern Kentucky Maine Central Institute UNLV Bryant Loyola Marymount (asst.) Loyola Marymount
Accomplishments and honors
Awards 1986-87 Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year 2004 New England Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee 2005 Words Unlimited Coach of the Year 2008 Rhode Island Basketball Media Coach of the Year 2011-12 West Coast Conference Coach of the Year

Max Good (born July 16, 1941) is the head men's basketball coach at Loyola Marymount University.^[1]^[2] He was promoted from his assistant's job to replace Bill Bayno, who resigned due to illness after three games into the 2008–09 season,^[3] his first and only season with the Lions. Good also replaced Bayno for the 2000–01 season at UNLV^[4] after Bayno was dismissed as head coach.

Prior to arriving at Loyola Marymount, Good spent eight seasons as the head coach at Bryant University,^[5] where he led the Bulldogs to five-straight NCAA Division II Sweet 16 finishes, as well as a NCAA Division II Championship runner-up finish in 2004–05.

After leading the Lions to an 18–15^[6] overall record (9–7 in conference),^[7] Good was named West Coast Conference Coach of the Year for 2009-10 season by Collegeinsider.com.^[8]^[9] The 18 wins were the most by Loyola Marymount since 1996.^[10] The 15-game turnaround from last season's 3-24 campaign was the second-largest in the nation, as well as the second-largest turnaround in LMU history.^[1]

On March 17, 2010, Good led the Lions against the University of the Pacific Tigers at LMU's Gersten Pavilion.^[9]^[11] This was the Lions' first post-season tournament under Good and its first since 1990.^[11]

Prior to joining the Lions as an assistant, Good led Bryant University to a 132-86 record in eight seasons. In his last year at Bryant, the Bulldogs earned an NCAA Division II Tournament berth for the 5th consecutive year. When Good was named head coach at Bryant in 2001, he inherited a program that had four straight losing seasons. He posted a 17- 14 record in his second season and Bryant was named Most Improved team by the New England Basketball Coaches. By 2004 season, Good lead the Bulldogs to 23 wins, earning the school's first NCAA tournament berth in 24 years. They advanced to the Sweet Sixteen. In his fourth year, Good led Bryant to a 25-9 record. They played in NCAA Division II Championship, falling to Virginia Union in the title game, 63-58.

Good came to Bryant after spending the 2000-01 season as the interim head coach of UNLV. He posted a record of 13-9 in his one season with the Runnin' Rebels. He joined the UNLV staff in 1999-00 as an assistant.

Prior to joining the UNLV staff, Good served as the head coach at Maine Central Institute for 10 seasons (1989–99). He compiled a 275-30 (.902) record over that span. MCI was five times the New England Prep School Athletic Conference Champion during his tenure. MCI captured back-to-back conference championships (1997–99). They were 69-4 over those two years (35-0 and 34-4). Good's MCI teams went undefeated three times (26-0 in 1989-90; 24-0 in 1990-91; 35-0 in 1997-98). From 1989-92, Maine Central Institute compiled 79 straight victories. His 1992 squad was 29-1.

His coaching background includes five seasons as the assistant coach at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Ky. (1976–81). He replaced Ed Bhyre as head coach in 1981 and served thru 1989. His overall record at EKU was 96-129 (.427). He carded a 19-11 record in 1987 and was named the Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year. In 1988, the Colonels went 18-11.

Good began his coaching career at Richmond Madison High School in Richmond in 1970. He served as the JV head coach for three seasons (1970–73) and then served three seasons (1973–76) as the head coach. His 1975 team finished 23-6 and was ranked as a Top Ten team by the Associated Press.

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Official website

Eastern Kentucky Colonels basketball head coaches

Clyde Wilson (1909–1912)
Charles Keith (1912–1913)
Ben Barnard (1913–1917)
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Charles Miller & Clyde McCoy (1919–1920)
George Hembree (1920–1929)
Turkey Hughes (1929–1935)
Rome Rankin (1935–1943)
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Rome Rankin (1944–1946)
Paul McBrayer (1946–1962)
Jim Baechtold (1962–1967)
Guy R. Strong (1967–1973)
Bob Mulcahy (1973–1976)
Ed Byhre (1976–1981)
Max Good (1981–1989)
Mike Pollio (1989–1992)
Mike Calhoun (1992–1997)
Scott Perry (1997–2000)
Travis Ford (2000–2005)
Jeff Neubauer (2005– )

UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball head coaches

Michael Drakulich (1958–1963)
Ed Gregory (1963–1965)
Rolland Todd (1965–1970)
John Bayer (1970–1973)
Jerry Tarkanian (1973–1992)
Rollie Massimino (1992–1994)
Tim Grgurich (1994–1995)
Howie Landa & Cleveland Edwards # (1995)
Bill Bayno (1995–2000)
Max Good # (2000–2001)
Charlie Spoonhour (2001–2004)
Lon Kruger (2004–2011)
Dave Rice (2011– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

v t e Bryant Bulldogs men's basketball head coaches

Earl Shannon (1963–1964) Tom Duffy (1964–1968) Tom Foliard (1968–1978) Leon Drury (1978–1989) Ed Reilly (1989–2001) Max Good (2001–2008) Tim O'Shea (2008– )

Loyola Marymount Lions men's basketball head coaches

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Thomas Flaherty (1923–1924)
Harold Hess (1924–1925)
George Casey (1925–1926)
John Richlie (1926–1929)
Joseph Donahue (1929–1931)
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William Sargent (1934–1936)
Jimmy Needles (1936–1940)
Bernie Bradley (1940–1942)
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Thomas Korn (1943–1944)
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Scotty McDonald (1946–1952)
Edwin Powell (1952–1953)
William Donovan (1953–1961)
John Arndt (1961–1968)
Richard Baker (1968–1973)
Dave Benaderet (1973–1979)
Ron Jacobs (1979–1980)
Ed Goorjian (1980–1985)
Paul Westhead (1985–1990)
Jay Hillock (1990–1992)
John Olive (1992–1997)
Charles Bradley (1997–2000)
Steve Aggers (2000–2005)
Rodney Tention (2005–2008)
Bill Bayno (2008)
Max Good (2008– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

v t e Current men's basketball head coaches of the West Coast Conference

Dave Rose (BYU) Mark Few (Gonzaga) Max Good (Loyola Marymount) Marty Wilson (Pepperdine) Ron Verlin (Pacific) Eric Reveno (Portland) Randy Bennett (Saint Mary's) Bill Grier (San Diego) Rex Walters (San Francisco) Kerry Keating (Santa Clara)

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