The sun has begun to set on the 2009 Notre Dame season, but not before the storm clouds set in this past week over the futures of Charlie Weis, Jack Swarbrick, Jimmy Clausen, and Golden Tate.

Weis could be fired, Tate and Clausen could choose the NFL, and Swarbrick could have the unenviable task of choosing the next hybrid head coach with all the required qualities of Holtz, Ara, and Knute.

And the rest of the story isn't much better.

A defeat at Stanford will be a 6-6 season of epic disappointment. Notre Dame will be accused of no longer being a true national player. Experts will claim that the Irish will start from scratch, and that the echoes will be little more than faint murmurs as the long road to revival begi...

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