Bio

Byron Rimm II was named head men’s basketball coach at Dallas College Eastfield on November 1, 2024.

Rimm was a former head men’s basketball coach at Prairie View A&M University, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis and Jarvis Christian College and the head women’s coach at Texas College for one season, winning 197 games at those stops. He served as an assistant coach at Houston Christian University and the University of California Riverside. He spent one year as the associate head coach at IUPUI and one as the director of operations at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. He also was an assistant coach at Cal State San Bernardino Pasadena City College and Chaffey College. 

Rimm began as an assistant coach with Houston Christian in 2021. Prior to that, he spent two years as the head coach at IUPUI from 2019-21, following one season as the associate head coach with the Jaguars. In his first year with IUPUI, the Jaguars won 16 games. Rimm spent the 2017-18 season as an assistant coach at UC Riverside. In 2016-17, he served as the director of operations at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, which went 24-12. The Islanders advanced to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament championship game, falling to Saint Peter’s, 62-61.

Rimm was the head coach at Prairie View A&M from 2006-16. He became the winningest coach in program history, collecting 115 victories, including 79 in the Southwestern Athletic Conference.

Rimm assumed the head coaching reigns at Prairie View in 2006. Armed with the task of rebuilding a program that had only two winning seasons since moving up to the NCAA Division I ranks in 1980, Rimm slowly put his touch on the program in his first three seasons at the helm. In his first season, Rimm guided the Panthers to a three-game improvement in the win column. Prairie View narrowly missed the Southwestern Athletic Conference Tournament. That year, Brian Ezeh was named the SWAC’s Newcomer of the Year. During the 2007-08 campaign, the Panthers made national headlines for their performance against nationally-ranked Tennessee. In addition, the Panthers also captured their first NCAA Division I win since 2005, with a victory over Norfolk State and win at Jackson State on the road for the first time in two decades.

After two seasons of rebuilding, everything fell into place for Rimm in 2008-09 as the Panthers put together with their best record and finish in the league since 2002-03. Prairie View went 17-16, finishing third in the SWAC. Led by SWAC Newcomer of the Year and All-SWAC First-Teamer Darnell Hugee, the Panthers advanced to the second round of the SWAC Tournament for only the third time since 1998 with an opening-round win over Mississippi Valley State.

In 2009-10, Rimm became the first head coach at Prairie View A&M since 2002 to make consecutive SWAC Tournament appearances. In addition, Rimm won his fourth straight game over Texas Southern, marked the longest winning streak over the Tigers prior to 1980. Three Panthers, Darnell Hugee, Dorian McDaniel and point guard Chris Jones, went on to play professional basketball overseas. Hugee inked with Saint Vallier Basketball Drome of France, while McDaniel played for Duesseldorf in Germany. Jones signed a contract with BC Prievidza in Slovakia.

During the 2010-11 campaign, Rimm’s team earned the program’s third SWAC Tournament appearance. That year, the Panthers led the conference in offensive rebounding. Trant Simpson and Brandon Webb earned All-SWAC honors, with Webb posting career highs in field goal percentage, points and rebounding.

Rimm had the task of meshing a roster which featured 10 newcomers entering the 2011-12 campaign. Despite the large amount of newcomers present, Rimm guided the Panthers to their best finish in three seasons and the program’s fourth consecutive SWAC Tournament appearance. The Panthers were the SWAC’s top rebounding team, leading the league in rebounding margin, rebounding offense, offensive rebounds and defensive rebounding. The Panthers also improved their offensive production, finishing second in scoring offense and third in scoring margin. Defensively, Prairie View A&M ranked second in three-point field goal percentage defense and third in field goal percentage defense, steals and scoring margin.

In 2012-13, Prairie View turned a huge corner under Rimm as the Panthers advanced to the SWAC Tournament Championship game for the first time since 1998, en route to falling in the closing seconds. That season, the Panthers defeated a pair of teams from Conference USA and the Patriot League. They also dominated the glass, finishing 17th nationally in total rebounds, 24th in three-point field goal defense and 47th in field goal percentage defense. Individually, senior guard Jourdan DeMuynck earned Second Team All-SWAC honors, while DeMuynck and guard Carl Blair received All-Tournament honors. DeMuynck went on to play professionally for Keravnos Strovolou in the Republic of Cyprus.

In the 2013-14 campaign, the Panthers came within minutes of making history once again as they fell in the SWAC Tournament title game for the second straight season. Junior guard Montrael Scott had a career season, emerging as a team leader. The Panthers were dangerous from beyond the arc as they led the SWAC in three-pointers made.

In 2014-15, Rimm led the Panthers on a historic run which included a seven-game winning streak that marked the team's longest winning streak since the 1972-73 season under former coach Bill Cofield. In addition, PVAMU defeated Conference USA member North Texas in the first meeting between both schools, while also leading PVAMU past the first round of SWAC Tournament play for the third consecutive season. Individually, senior guard Montrael Scott surpassed the 1,000-point career, while finishing fourth in the SWAC in scoring en route to signing a professional contract with KB Golden Eagle Ylli in Kosovo. Senior guard Tre Hagood was an all-around threat as he ranked in the top 10 in four statistical categories while senior guard John Brisco also averaged double figures. Reggis Onwukamuche was named the SWAC's Defensive Player of the Year, while also earning a spot on the All-SWAC Second Team, and signed a contract with the Sheffield Sharks of the British Basketball League. Junior forward Karim York averaged a career-high 9.1 points per game, along with 5.1 rebounds. York tripled his scoring average in 2014-15, and averaged nearly four times more rebounds than the previous season with the Panthers. In the classroom, Rimm’s program produced the top score among men’s basketball teams in the SWAC during the annual Academic Progress Report released by the NCAA two years earlier. The team posted its highest APR in program history with a score of 944. Only three basketball teams in the SWAC posted scores of 900 or higher with a 27-point difference separating the Panthers from the closest institution.

A native of Pensacola, Fla., Rimm played junior college basketball on the West Coast at Ventura College in Ventura, Calif. He was team captain on the school’s 1995-96 state championship team before wrapping up his playing career at California State University, Los Angeles.

He remained on the West Coast and began his ascension up the coaching ladder by serving as an assistant coach at Pasadena City College and Chaffey Community College from 1997-2000. After several years on the junior college level, Rimm moved to California State University, San Bernardino in 2000, and helped guide the team to a No. 3 ranking in NCAA Division II.

He spent one season at San Bernardino before taking over as the head women’s basketball coach at Texas College in Tyler, Texas. Overseeing a program that didn’t offer athletic scholarships, Rimm's team posted a 20-12 record in 2001-02. It was the best record in school history. After one season at Texas College, Rimm returned to the men’s side, accepting a position as head coach of Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins, Texas. He spent three years at Jarvis, going 47-39 overall, 37-27 in the Red River Athletic Conference. Rimm made an immediate impact in his first season with the Bulldogs, guiding them to a second place finish in the RRAC and their first NAIA National Tournament appearance in more than three decades. Rimm was selected as RRAC Co-Coach of the Year, and had two players earn all-conference honors, in addition to earning votes in the NAIA national poll. Rimm capped off his career at Jarvis by leading the Bulldogs to two Red River Tournament appearances, and recorded victories over two nationally-ranked programs before moving on to Prairie View A&M as an assistant coach for the 2005-06 campaign.

A 1999 graduate of California State University, Los Angeles, Rimm received a Bachelor of Arts degree in liberal studies. He also obtained a master’s degree in education from American InterContinental University in 2005.