Dave Checketts
Dave Checketts
David W. Checkettsis an American businessman, founder and chairman SCP Worldwide, sits on the board of JetBlue Airways, and was the owner of the soccer club Real Salt Lake...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
fans game goal reason worth
The fans are the reason we get into this business. The fans here are worth a goal a game to the Blues.
sports long fans
Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.
ahead begin clearly cup fans goal move next possible season stanley toward ultimate
Next season we will move ahead and begin working toward the ultimate goal of a Stanley Cup championship. That's what I think is very possible and I want our fans clearly to know that.
approach buy careful chemistry fans good knew louis name news owner rangers team understand work wrong york
The good news for St. Louis fans is I understand what we did right in New York with the Rangers, and I also understand what we did wrong. Where we started to go wrong with the Rangers is when we got away from a drafting, developing, being careful about a team chemistry approach with an owner that just wanted us to buy every big name in the business. That doesn't work in hockey. I knew it then, I especially know it now.
bring committed critical stability
When you think about teams, one of the most critical things is stability. I want to just bring stability to this situation. The new owner's in place, a long-term owner, committed owner.
enhances experience game
It enhances the whole game experience to have a soccer-specific stadium. That's what we'll do.
county happens lining money notion pockets private public taking unless work
These things don't work unless there's some public-private partnership there. The notion that any of this money is just lining our pockets is just erroneous. They're (the county and city) taking over the land, just the way they do with any other private enterprise. . . . This just happens to be more public because it's private sports.
critical equation experience markets rich running runs small teams
I've had experience running teams in very big markets, very rich markets like New York. I've runs teams on a shoestring in Utah, in some very small markets. The equation really doesn't change. What's critical is being responsible about it.
city lake league major salt time
It's time for Salt Lake City to have another major league team.
bring decisions ensure stability
I want to bring stability to the team. We're going to be making long-term decisions to ensure front-office stability.
build change city soccer
We've really battled through this. Now we have a change to build Soccer City USA.
bill owns team until
Bill Laurie still owns the team until we close.
blank canvas chance control draft fact good past picks
What's been done in the past I really have no control over. Frankly, I like the fact that we have kind of a blank canvas with some young talent, some very good draft picks and a chance to really build.
bought elsewhere notion silly
Any notion that we bought this to go elsewhere is silly at this point.