[2] After graduating from Springfield, Gibney became the wrestling coach and assistant athletic director at the Kingswood School in West Hartford, Connecticut.
[3] He led BU to its first undefeated season in 1972–73 and its first Yankee Conference championship in any sport in 1975.
When AD Warren Schmakel left to take the same job at Illinois State University later that year, Gibney was named acting athletic director.
[5] In 1976, Gibney left BU to become the associate athletic director at Syracuse University.
According to Northampton County Deputy Coroner Ed Madden, Gibney had tied a leather athletic jump rope around an overhead heating pipe and hanged himself.