Gordon Monson: The Pac-12’s tattered flags go on flying upside down

Remember when Utah used to fly all those Pac-12 flags, expressing such pride in being part of an elite association, one that was not just a cut above the Utes’ previously dreaded mid-major designation, but also a cut above other power conferences?To do so anymore is to raise the tattered banner of a kind of halfway house between P5 prominence and Group of Five desperation. It’s one thing for Pac-12 schools to be competitively sagging in sports that are outside the far-reaching, large