News coming out of South Bend is that Irish QB Jimmy Clausen received a black eye or two after getting slugged outside a bar early Sunday morning.  On the sabbath?!!

Anyway, it’s not completely clear whether this was a fight of any kind or if Clausen was just the victim of an idiotic angry fan.  I suppose it’s possible there was a double-dog dare involved too. 

Somehow this is the fault of Charlie Weis, but we’ll wait for the official news to come down from the authorities to figure out how to pass that blame.  The entire season has been one huge black eye for Notre Dame.  This was supposed to be the year that Weis finally shed himself of all those Willingham recruits and took his guys to a BCS game, or as Lou Holtz predicted, their seventh straight National Championship. 

Obviously, things didn’t go as planned and when things are down incidents like your star QB getting punched outside of a bar seem to happen more often.  Clausen was at one point this season discussed as a legitimate Heisman candidate and maybe even the front-runner, but that all seems very unlikely at this point.  Even though he has continued to impress, losses to Navy and UConn don’t help the cause. 

The Irish finish up their regular season Saturday night against Stanford before all the focus turns to whether Weis will get to stick around to coach ND in the bowl game.

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