Aaron Heisler

"Nobody here is surprised by this," said coach Aaron Heisler.

Aaron Heisler, head coach

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Out," says Aaron Heisler, Talmudical's head coach the past two seasons."It's not coming back."

In the fall, Heisler says, Talmudical Principal Tzvi Teichman told him that henceforth only intramural ball will be played on the Pikesville campus.
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"Nobody here is surprised by this," says Heisler, who came to Talmudical for the 1999–2000 school year."Rabbi Teichman wanted no part of what was going on when Tamir was here.If this school is going to have a niche, that niche is going to be academics, not basketball.I knew he wanted to ease basketball out the door when I came here to coach.And this year, he did that."

According to Heisler, the Talmudical administration began getting skittish about basketball way back in January 1999.That's when the University of Maryland decided to offer Goodman, then Talmudical's 16-year-old junior point guard, a basketball scholarship.It is believed that no other Orthodox Jew had ever been given a free ride by a Division I program.

Goodman's star within the Orthodox community rose higher with every proclamation that he wouldn't compromise his religious observances, which included staying away from basketball during the traditional Jewish Sabbath and wearing a yarmulke even on the court, for the game's sake.

Talmudical up to that point played its home games not in a basketball gym but in a catchall facility called the Holtzman Multi-Purpose Room.
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Katz was replaced by Heisler.
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"I really don't know what our record was," says Heisler, who now runs Talmudical's intramural program."Winning really wasn't important.Things are different here now than when Tamir was here."