TROY ESPRIT
Head Coach

Arena and indoor football veteran Troy Esprit makes his head coaching debut with the Frisco Thunder in 2008.

The 33-year old Esprit brings 12 years experience to the franchise as both a player and
coach. A two-way standout, Esprit turned in one of af2's finest single-game performance in 2001 with the Pensacola Barracudas, registering 13 receptions and four interceptions in a victory over the Carolina Rhinos.

Esprit saw time in the Arena Football League with the Florida Bobcats and Chicago Rush. In addition to Pensacola, Esprit's af2 tenure included stops in Macon, Ga. and Cape Fear, N.C. before he concluded his playing career in his hometown of Beaumont, Texas, with the National Indoor Football League's Beaumont Drillers.

Esprit switched over to the coaching side in 2003 with Beaumont, where he served a defensive coordinator. His 2006 team led the league in total defense. He most recently served with the af2's Texas Copperheads.

He attended Grambling State University on a football scholarship and later received his business management degree from Lamar University.


BRAD FRAZIER
Quarterbacks Coach

Brad Frazier enters his second season as the Frisco Thunder's quarterbacks coach with the Frisco Thunder. In his first season, Frazier oversaw the league's most prolific offense that registered 3,178 yards total yards and 87 touchdowns.

Frazier also owns Old School Quarterback, a school where he tutors quarterbacks of all ages as well as provides one-on-one training for professional quarterbacks such as Sonny Cumby of the LA Avengers and /Dalton Bell of the Green Bay Packers

Frazier was the quarterback at Howard Payne University from 1979-1981 where he held an individual record for the highest completion percentage in a game for an extended period He then attended Texas A&M from 1981-1982 but sustained an career-ending injury in 1982. 

Born in Fort Worth, TX, he attended high school in Taylor, Texas where he held nine letters in three different sports and earned All District honors in all Sports as well won the tennis state championship in 1979. . He played football under the direction of his father, one of the most successful coaches in Alabama and Texas with over 25 years of coaching. He and his wife Denise Frazier have two children, Macy and Brody. 

ERIC JACKSON
Defensive Coordinator

Eric Jackson played for and alongside Esprit in Beaumont with the NIFL's Drillers in 2004-2005. He finished his playing career with the Katy Copperheads of af2 in 2006, then transitioned over to coach as the secondary coach under Esprit, the team's defensive coordinator. 

After playing his college ball at Texas Tech and San Angelo State, Jackson played overseas in Finland, where he led the Maple League in interceptions in 2000 with 13. 
He is the Athletic Director and teacher at St. Edward Catholic School in Spring, TX

BILLY JACK RAY
Offensive/Defensive Line Coach

Ray comes to the Thunder after a year as an assistant with af2's Katy Copperheads. A member of Stephenville High’s 1993 Class 4A state championship team, Ray went on to Texas Tech for three years. He played for the National Indoor Football League's Lubbock Gunslingers in 2005 and was three-year all-league offensive lineman while playing semi-pro ball with the Cross Timber Outlaws of Texas United Football League.


BEN FERNANDEZ
Equipment Manager

Ben Fernandez begins his second season as the Frisco Thunder's equipment manager.

Prior to the Thunder, Fernandez worked for the Texas Tornado hockey team from 2005-2007 in a variety of capacities.

He graduated from McKinney North High School in 2006, where he played football and served as team manager.