HEAD COACH
MAX GOOD Inside info:
• Sixth Season at LMU • 76-115 at LMU • 22nd Season overall • 318-338 overall
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MU Head Coach Max Good, who officially took over the program as the 25th coach in school history on Jan. 12, 2009, continues to put the Lions in new levels of success. In Good’s fifth season, the Lions advanced to the semifinals of the WCC Championships thanks to three straight wins in three days. The Lions join Saint Mary’s and Gonzaga as the only program to advance to the quarterfinals and beyond in each of the last four seasons. The run in the 2013 WCC Championships was at the heels of Good’s fourth season where LMU finished the 2011-12 season at 21-13 overall and 11-5 (4th) in the WCC. Many of the Lions’ marks in LMU’s Centennial Season go back to the 1989-90 Elite Team, including its first 20-win season, the most conference wins, first postseason win, first team to earn consecutive postseason wins, most home wins (12), and best road record (9-4). In addition, the Lions have found success in the big games under Head Coach Good. The Lions are 4-5 against ranked opponents the last three seasons under Good, including a 3-2 mark in 2011-12. The three wins in one season against ranked opponents is second only to the 1989-90 team in program history. Good has led the Lions to a pair of wins (#9 Gonzaga, #23 Saint Louis) over ranked teams at home, the first coach to do so since Coach Donovan in 1961. The success in the 2011-12 season earned Good the WCC Coach of the Year, the Lions first since 1995-96. After the 29 games of 2013-14, Good is 76-115 and has a career head coaching record of 318-338. Good is no stranger to running a program. The 2013-14 season will be Good’s 22nd as a head coach at the NCAA level, coaching eight seasons at Bryant College (2001-08) prior to joining LMU. He also coached at UNLV for one season (2000-01) and eight seasons at Eastern Kentucky University (1981-89). In addition, his impact hasn’t been just at the college level as he was the head coach at the New England prep school Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, Maine, for 10 seasons (1990-00). At MCI he compiled an impressive 275-30 (.902) record that included five New England Prep School Athletic Conference Championships. Good coached 28 of the Lions’ 31 games in the 2008-09 season, filling in for former Head Coach Bill Bayno, who served a leave of absence before resigning due to health issues. In Good’s second season the team posted its second best turn-around in school history with 15 more wins than the year prior (which was also the second-best turn-around in the nation in 2009-10), defeated their first ranked opponent (#9 Gonzaga) since 1990, posted the program’s first rankedwin at Gersten Pavilion, defeated a top-10 team for the second time in school history (the last being in 1960), and had three players earn postseason All-WCC honors, just the 10th time since 1956 three or more Lions have claimed WCC honors. Prior to joining the Lions as an assistant, Good led Bryant University (Smithfield, RI) to new levels of success, posting a record of 132-86 in eight seasons. Good was named head coach in 2001 and inherited a program that had four straight losing seasons. The 2003-04 season saw Good lead the Bulldogs to a new level. They set a school-record
THE GOOD FILE BORN: July 17, 1941
EDUCATION: Eastern Kentucky University; B.A. - 1969/M.A. - 1970
COACHING EXPERIENCE: 2008 - Head Coach, LMU (76-115 - as of 2/27/14) 2008: Assistant Coach, Loyola Marymount University 2001-08: Head Coach, Bryant University (133-85) 2000-01: Head Coach, UNLV (13-9) 1999-00: Assistant Coach, UNLV 1989-99: Head Coach, Maine Central Institute (275-30) 1981-89: Head Coach, Eastern Kentucky (96-129) 1976-81: Assistant Coach, Eastern Kentucky 1973-76: Head Coach, Richmond Madison High School 1970-73: Head Coach JV, Richmond Madison High School GOOD’S COLLEGE COACHING CAREER RECORD YEAR INST. OVER. PCT CONF. PCT POSTSEASON 1981-82 EKU 5-21 .192 3-13 .188 1982-83 EKU 10-17 .370 7-7 .500 1983-84 EKU 11-16 .407 5-9 .357 1984-85 EKU 16-13 .552 9-5 .642 1985-86 EKU 10-18 .357 5-9 .357 1986-87 EKU 19-11 .633 9-5 .642 1987-88 EKU 18-11 .621 10-4 .714 1988-89 EKU 7-22 .241 4-8 .333 2000-01 UNLV 13-9 .590 7-7 .500 2001-02 BRYANT 7-19 .269 2002-03 BRYANT 17-14 .548 2003-04 BRYANT 23-10 .697 NCAA-II Sweet Sixteen 2004-05 BRYANT 25-9 .735 NCAA-II Runners-up 2005-06 BRYANT 21-10 .677 NCAA-II Elite Eight 2006-07 BRYANT 21-11 .656 NCAA-II Sweet Sixteen 2007-08 BRYANT 19-12 .613 NCAA-II Sweet Sixteen 2008-09 LMU 3-25 .107 2-12 .143 2009-10 LMU 18-16 .537 7-7 .500 CIT Postseason 1st Rd 2010-11 LMU 11-21 .344 2-12 .143 2011-12 LMU 21-13 .633 11-5 .688 WCC Coach of the Year 2012-13 LMU 11-23 .333 1-15 .063 2013-14 LMU 12-17 .419 4-13 .176 Totals 21 years 318-338 .484 27-64 .289
with 23 wins, earning the school’s first NCAA tournament berth in 24 years. They not only qualified, but advanced to the Sweet Sixteen. After a tough loss in the regional finals in just his third season, year four may go down as one of the best in Bryant’s history, leading them to a 25-9 overall record and a trip to the NCAA Division II Championship, falling to Virginia Union in the title game, 63-58. His extensive coaching background includes five seasons as the assistant coach at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond (1976-81). He then was named the head coach and spent eight seasons at Eastern Kentucky from 1981-89. He compiled an overall record of 96-129 (.427) at EKU. He enjoyed his best season in 1986-87 with a 19-11 record as he was named the Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year. The next season his squad was 18-11. Before arriving at Eastern Kentucky, he spent six seasons at Richmond Madison High School in Richmond, Ky. He served three seasons (1970-73) as the JV head coach and three seasons (1973-76) as the head coach. Good graduated from EKU in 1969 and received a master’s degree from his alma mater in 1970. He was introduced into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in Kingston, RI, for his time as coach at MCI in 2004 and was named the 2005 Words Unlimited Coach of the Year and Rhode Island Basketball Media Coach of the Year in 2008.
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