NASHVILLE—On a late-May day in which Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin didn’t have all that many answers to the biggest questions surrounding his program, he had one that encompassed every question he received that afternoon. Vanderbilt’s season was over without it reaching the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 19 seasons after its SEC Tournament loss to Florida and brought every negative narrative surrounding Corbin to light. The narrative was that he hadn’t adjusted to the NIL era and was too stuck in his ways. The program appeared to be farther away from its championship standard than it had been at any point in the prior 10 seasons, and Corbin still having his fastball was in doubt. To that, Corbin said…“I don't look at it and go ‘oh, my gosh.’ I just look at it and say ‘I'm going to figure this sh** out, some way, somehow,’” Corbin said in regard to college baseball’s new era. “It's a balancing act in terms of getting players, whether it's incoming high school kids, being able to acquire them -- finances probably helps that to some degree. We don't dip into the portal a lot. And really our opportunity in the portal is we probably have to go freshmen/sophomore.” Corbin and his staff–which he didn’t change for the mostpart–took that last part to heart. They went with freshmen and did it better than anybody in the country. Vanderbilt had the No. 1 high school class in the country prior to the MLB Draft and left the draft with the No. 1 class in the country. Vanderbilt head coach Tim Corbin celebrates the team's win over Duke in the NCAA Division I Baseball Super Regionals at Hawkins Field Sunday, June 9, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn.