 In 1983, he became the offensive line coach at Alabama in before returning to MSU, as the offensive line coach for a second time from 1984–89.He then did a second stint as the offensive line coach at Vanderbilt from 1990 through 1991 before becoming the head coach and athletic director at East Mississippi Community College, where he served from 1991 until retiring in 2003.Goode was married for over 19 years to the former Sonia Buffington Foster of Canton Mississippi, and they were parents of three boys, Tommy, Michael, and Brin Foster, and two girls, Lessie (Goode) Belk and Sandi (Foster) May.