Avondale Westview coach Jeff Bowen chuckled at the premise.
Mesa Desert Ridge and Peoria Centennial will probably use it as bulletin-board material.
The teams in question won't even address it.
But since the start of the 2010 prep football season, one fantasy matchup has overshadowed every real game played on the fields of Arizona.
Chandler Hamilton vs. Scottsdale Chaparral.
Class 5A Division I's biggest dog vs. Class 5A Division II's finest.
The best two teams in the state, battling for one mythical title.
"I would pay playoff ticket prices to go see this game," said Phoenix St. Mary's coach Eddie Zubey, whose Knights lost to both teams this season. "I wouldn't even use my AIA pass."
It won't happen. Not after the 5A-I and 5A-II title games have been played Monday at University of Phoenix Stadium, marking the official end of the fall season.
"If there were a system in place to have the Division I and Division II champs play it couldhappen, but you couldn't do it at the last minute," Arizona Interscholastic Association Executive Director Harold Slemmer said. "The member schools and conferences would have to approve it, and that would have to happen at least before the season started."
Aside from the difficulty associated with securing a large enough venue to hold this high-interest game at the last minute, Slemmer doesn't see much incentive for 5A-I teams to play 5A-II teams.
"What do they have to gain?" he asked. "They're already champs of the 5A-I conference - the conference for the biggest schools."
He also worries what sort of precedent it would set.
"Would you have the 4A-I and 4A-II teams play, too," he asked. "The 3As and 2As? Would you do it for basketball and all the other sports? These are the kinds of things the member schools would certainly be talking about."
All of this talk is, of course, premature -- just as it has been all season.
Hamilton and Chaparral haven't even won state titles yet. Their respective opponents, Mesa Desert Ridge and Peoria Centennial, have ample reason to believe they will raise the championship trophies on Monday.
Desert Ridge is rolling behind a revamped offense led by quarterback Jordan Becerra and running back Joey Counts. The Jaguars have won eight consecutive games, and in three playoff games with Becerra replacing injured starter Parker Rasmussen at quarterback, the Jags are averaging 395 rushing yards and 43 points.
Centennial has an even stronger argument. The Coyotes won three 5A-II titles in a row from 2006 to 2008 before Tempe Marcos de Niza ended their 39-game winning streak in last season's semifinals. They believe the title is their birthright.
"I really think it takes away from the other teams that are playing to be talking about this game," Bowen said of the Chaparral-Hamilton matchup. "Desert Ridge and Centennial have done a great job. They earned the right to play for a championship."
And yet, the fantasy lingers.
If both teams win convincingly on Monday, they will have gone undefeated and largely unchallenged this season. Hamilton's closest in-state game was a 14-point win over Westview in the regular season. Chaparral's closest game was a 13-point win - also against Westview in last week's semifinals.
Bowen raves about both offensive lines but feels Hamilton's is just a little deeper. On the other hand, Chaparral has do-everything Davonte' Neal who can beat you as a receiver, a runner or a kick returner.
"Neal is a difference maker, and that's the biggest thing with Chaparral," Bowen said. "When we played them both we were able to slow down some of Chaparral's other players, while we weren't able to slow down any of Hamilton's guys enough.
"But Neal was the difference in our game with Chaparral."
Zubey loves both teams' lines.
"They're not just good, they're dominant," he said. "After we played them both our kids came off the field saying 'they were just too strong.' "
Zubey has a simple plan to let these teams play.
"If you didn't give 5A teams a bye during Thanksgiving week, then you could have played this game this week," he said.
Critics will point out that Chaparral turned down a chance to play Hamilton early in the season. Firebirds coach Charlie Ragle didn't want his team playing its first game of the season against a Huskies club that had already opened against Las Vegas Bishop Gorman in a nationally televised game at Northern Arizona University's Walkup Skydome.
But Zubey said an early meeting wouldn't have done the matchup justice anyway.
"I'd like to see them in their prime in the playoffs, when both teams are peaking," he said.
And, just for argument's sake, who would win?
"I could see it going either way," Zubey said. "But I know it would be a heck of a game."
