The news about former Virginia Tech great Michael Vick being conditionally reinstated by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday got me thinking about how different things are around college football since 1999, the year the Hokies redshirt freshman was the breakout star in sports. (For one thing, a decade later, Va. Tech is a legitimate college football powerhouse.)
To check out how life was different for Pete Carroll and Urban Meyer back in '99, to look at how the SEC and Big Ten are completely different, and for some Alabama recruiting news -- you must be an ESPN Insider.
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Bruce Feldman
Bruce Feldman is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine. He started at ESPN in 1994. He spent a good portion of two years in the South working on his book, "Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting."
His first book, "Cane Mutiny: How the Miami Hurricanes Overturned the Football Establishment," made it to No. 1 among sports titles in the fall of 2004.
Bruce can be reached via Twitter at @BFeldmanESPN. and his full ESPN.Com archives are located here.
