From Deseret News archives:
Questions for Checketts
RSL owner David Checketts sat down with the Deseret Morning News last week to reflect on the past season, and what to potentially expect in 2008.
DMN: Considering wins have been so tough to come by for Real Salt Lake this year, when did you give up on the 2007 playoffs as a realistic possibility?
Checketts: There was this period of time when Jason (Kreis) took over, particularly the night of the Red Bulls game that we came back and tied, I actually thought maybe there was some hope. Maybe we had enough jump and spark. But then sometime in early August, and I don't remember a particular game, but I realized we probably weren't going to make it. I knew we didn't have the horses to compete in this league. We just didn't have the personnel.
DMN: Is it encouraging then that coach Jason Kreis and his players continually insisted they still believed they could make the playoffs?
DMN: How would you evaluate Jason Kreis in his first 4 1/2 months as RSL's head coach?
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