No two schools could be more similar than these two. Founded the same year, same number of students, changed to current name the same year, Lumberjacks v Mountaineers, Louie v Yosef, the weather, the geography, local ski areas...
One of my daughters is an incoming freshman at NAU and the other a former ASU student. I live in NC and was a ski partoller at App Ski Mtn. I've visited both schools and enjoy them both.
But I'm going to sit on the visitor's side of the field in an NAU sweatshirt. Go Jacks!!!!!!!!!!