Just a note to let you all know that former Cooper High School and Hardin-Simmons University football standout Will Galusha is going to get paid to play the sport he loves.

Galusha was contacted late Monday evening by the Frisco Thunder of the Intense Football League with a job offer, and late Tuesday night he decided to take up on that offer.

His new coach, Jon Loudermilk, incidentally, is a Hardin-Simmons graduate and was also on the staff with Art Briles and current Cooper coach Mike Spradlin at the University of Houston as a grad assistant.

The Thunder, in its first year of existence, the newest franchise in the IFL, an indoor league with teams spread across the country and as far north as Alaska.

The most exciting thing about the job for Galusha is that he will get to step back under center and play quarterback for the Thunder, a position he played while at Cooper. Of course, with a travel roster of 19 players, Galusha is also going to be seeing time at wide receiver, defensive back, kick returner and punt returner. He left Abilene on Wednesday to report to the team Thursday.