Northwestern reportedly exploring unique option to keep home-field advantage during construction of new Ryan Field

Schools doing major renovations to their stadiums during the fall season face a few less than ideal scenarios.

Option 1: If the renovation is minor and confined to one specific area, they may have the option to play with an area of the field closed off to fans, which likely impacts stadium capacity, among other things.

Option 2: Play your home games at a neutral site for a season or so and lose the treasured home-field advantage of college football where everything is disrupted from player routine, fan experience, attendance of game day, and the list goes on and on.

Neither one is ideal, nor exciting to anyone parties involved.

At Northwestern, as 97-year old Ryan Field is set to make room for the new and improved Ryan Field centered on a smaller and more intimate fan experience while creating a year-round community asset for both the Northwestern campus and Evanston, David Braun and company are reportedly weighing a unique third option.

While the new Ryan Field is erected, Darren Rovell shares that the school is weighing the possibility of a temporary stadium modeled after the 16th hole at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

For those unfamiliar with the venue that had shut down alcohol sales just a few weeks ago because of the unruly crowd in attendance, here's a peek.

The capacity they have in mind is 15-20k, according to Rovell, which would surround one of the most beautiful practice field settings in all of college football, as their practice field has water on three of its four sides.

The Wate Management setup is three tiers around most of the venue, with some limited lower level seating options.

If they're able to pull it off, it would certainly make for a pretty awesome venue to have boats anchored around the stadium much like at Washington and Baylor where fans are treated to what has affectionately been dubbed "sailgating."