Gibson Kirk Arnold (born October 19, 1968) is an American college basketball player and coach.

[2] An honor student as a freshman, Arnold left Arizona State to go on a two-year LDS mission to Munich, Germany.

[4] Retiring from basketball, Arnold transferred to Brigham Young University and graduated in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in business administration.

[5] Among players he coached at USC included first-round NBA draft picks DeMar DeRozan, Taj Gibson, O. J. Mayo, and Nikola Vucevic.

[10] On March 7, 2014, during a game at UC Santa Barbara, a fan of the home team ran on the court to confront Arnold after a Hawaii player was whistled for an intentional foul.

[11] On October 28, 2014, days before the start of the 2014–15 season, Hawaii fired Arnold and assistant coach Bradyn Akana during the initial stages of an NCAA investigation.

[12] Hawaii announced self-imposed penalties on May 15, 2015, as a result of seven alleged Level I or Level II NCAA violations and vacated 36 wins in which back-up center Davis Rozitis competed in the previous two seasons, due to what Hawaii determined to be improper benefits from a booster.

The NCAA determined that back-up center and Hawaii Scholar Athlete of the Year Davis Rozitis borrowed a car of an acquaintance to move his belongings into his dorm.

Later it was found out he attended an athletic banquet and buying a ticket to the event two years prior triggered booster status.

Arnold’s Attorney, James Bickerton said that “his client was pleased the NCAA found no level 1 violations—-the most serious of the associations tiers of infractions —-as he had been saying.” Bickerton said the “NCAA accepted Arnold’s testimony on events and rejected the testimony of his main accusers on the factual points he disputed.