Aztecs Expect to Break Even

Fred Miller, San Diego State University’s athletic director, Thursday released the department’s budget for the 1988-89 fiscal year and projected a break-even year for 1987-88.

A spokesman said the latter would not be confirmed until the fiscal year ends June 30. It would be the first time in three years that the SDSU athletic program would not finish in the black.

Miller said in a statement, “While we’re disappointed that we are unable to reduce the remaining $332,000 deficit (from previous years), we don’t expect to be adding to it.”

The 1988-89 budget totals $4,407,200, a $307,076 increase over the 1987-88 budget of $4,100,124.

The increase was largely a result of expectations of revenue generated from men’s basketball, additional income from the new corporate sponsorship program and an increase of 9.6 in-state scholarship equivalents for nine sports.

Teams getting more scholarship money are men’s golf (from 1.3 scholarships to 3); women’s golf (3.2 to 4); soccer (3.4 to 5); softball (3.4 to 5); men’s tennis (1.9 to 3); women’s tennis (6.8 to 7); men’s track and field (4.6 to 5); women’s track and field (3.4 to 5), and men’s volleyball (4.4 to 5).

FOOTBALL

The Chargers announced that they have signed former Redskin backup quarterback Babe Laufenberg. Laufenberg becomes the fifth quarterback on the Charger roster (the others are Mark Malone, Mark Herrmann, Mark Vlasic and Mike Kelley). Laufenberg, 28, is 6-feet 3-inches tall and weighs 208 pounds. He also has spent time on New Orleans’ roster.

OLYMPIC BASKETBALL

Fifty-one players reported as the U.S. Olympic women’s basketball trials got under way at the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs, Colo., but San Diego State’s Jessica Haynes, who was invited, was not among them.

“She just decided it would take too much time away from her schooling,” a source at SDSU said.

Six other players were granted medical waivers, including former Point Loma High star Terri Mann of Western Kentucky University.