Gibson Kirk Arnold (born October 19, 1968) is an American college basketball player and coach. Early life and education Arnold was born in 1968, when his father Frank Arnold was an assistant coach at the University of Oregon. As Frank Arnold later became an assistant at UCLA and was head coach at BYU and Hawaii, Gib Arnold grew up in the Los Angeles, Provo, Utah, and Honolulu, Hawaii areas. Arnold graduated from Punahou School in 1987, where he was a prep All-American and Hawaii's high school Gatorade Player of the Year. Initially committed to Hawaii, Arnold first attended Arizona State University instead to follow his father, who became assistant coach for the Arizona State Sun Devils. An honor student as a freshman, Arnold left Arizona State to go on a two-year LDS mission to Munich, Germany. In 1990, Arnold enrolled in Dixie State College, a junior college in St. George, Utah and played his first year of college basketball there. Arnold transferred to UC San Diego in 1991, averaging 3.6 points in 20 games as a sophomore. Retiring from basketball, Arnold transferred to Brigham Young University and graduated in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. Gib is currently in the process of completing his masters degree in clinical psychology, at Harvard University, in Cambridge. Coaching career Assistant coach and junior college head coach (1994–2010) Arnold began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Provo High School in 1994. In the 1995–96 season, Arnold moved up to the junior college level as assistant coach at Utah Valley State College (now Utah Valley University). The following season, Arnold got his first NCAA Division I coaching job as assistant coach at Loyola Marymount. In the 1998–99 season, Arnold was an assistant coach at Vanderbilt under Jan van Breda Kolff. In 1999, Arnold followed van Breda Kolff to Pepperdine and remained on staff under Paul Westphal from 2001 to 2003. At Pepperdine, Arnold specialized in coaching defense and recruiting. From 2003 to 2005, Arnold served as the head coach at the College of Southern Idaho, a junior college in Twin Falls, Idaho where he posted a 57–14 record. On April 6, 2005, Arnold became an assistant coach at USC under Tim Floyd and remained for the 2009–10 season under new head coach Kevin O'Neill. At USC, Arnold was named as one of the top 25 recruiters in the country by Rivals.com