HANCEVILLE, Ala. – After taking over a team that went 9-20 in 2025, newly-minted Fairview boys head coach Bobby Meyer and the Aggies have taken to summer ball as they try to flip their fortunes in ’26.
At Wallace State’s Tom Drake Coliseum, the Aggies took part in the Summer Play Date run alongside teams from across northern Alabama on Wednesday. First, the Aggies took on an East Lawrence team coming off a regional semifinals run in 2025-26. Fairview played solid ball, but struggled to hang with the athleticism of guard Bryce Young, who’s currently committed to play wide receiver at North Alabama, and the Aggies fell 43-36.
Stepping up to go bucket-for-bucket with Young in game one, however, and carrying his performance over into the second game vs. Wilson, was rising senior guard Konnor Dunkin. The Aggies’ 5-9 floor general showed off silky smooth ball handling, crafty scoring and active hands on defense, all things Fairview fans should look forward to this winter.
Meyer described his point guard as “strong, aggressive and hard-nosed,” and Dunkin’s 11 point and four assist game (stats are unofficial) to lift the Aggies to a blowout 47-25 win over the Warriors in game two certainly backed that up.
“It’s a bunch of hard working kids is what I’m seeing, and that’s what I expected here at Fairview. They’re hard working, blue collar guys. They have good basketball savvy and skills, they just have to work hard. I have new things, new systems, new ways of playing defense- a new mentality, really, that I want instilled,” Meyer said after the Aggies went 1-1 on the afternoon.
Outside of developing skill and on-floor chemistry, Meyer pointed to strengthening players’ mental toughness and work ethic as one of the most valuable aspects of summer ball.
“We still need to build that culture of sweat equity with each other. You know, you gotta get in the gym, you gotta get on that track or hit those bleachers to build that equity. When you’ve put in that sweat, that sweat gives you an ability to participate, compete and play hard. We’re still working on that, the ability to play harder and dig deeper when you didn’t think you could. I’ve got a saying with them, ‘tired equals dumb’. We don’t want to get tired, because when you get dumb, you play dumb basketball, and we don’t want to get to that, we want that for our opposition, so we’ve got to work,” Meyer said.
