Set 2: Gonna Need a Bigger Booth (w/Sean McDonough)

Stugotz and Company

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Sports, Comedy

4.8 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The 2025 Sports Broadcaster of the Year winner, Sean McDonough joins the show to tell us if he was jealous watching Miami beat Ole Miss last night as he prepares to call his game between Indiana and Oregon. Sean tells us how his dad is still influencing how he calls games over 20 years after his passing. Plus, how intense is Mario Cristobal?

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0:00.0	The great Sean McDonough is with us.
0:09.0	The great Sean McDonough is with us.
0:22.8	Very busy time for him.
0:24.0	We're super grateful.
0:24.9	He's joining us.
0:25.5	He has Indiana, Oregon tonight, 730 on ESPN, the other national semifinal game.
0:31.3	And we'll get to that in just a second.
0:33.4	But the 2025 national sportscaster of the year. Congratulations to you,
0:40.9	you edge me out again. I did. I could feel your late surge in the validating,
0:46.8	too, from what I'm told. No, it's a thrill. You know, it's, I joked at the time when they
0:53.1	told me a week ago at our production meeting, Greg McElroy and our crew surprised me that I was kind of, the Susan Lucci the award had been a finalist a bunch of times and never won. And I never really was that disappointed about it because when you look at the people who have one, you're like, absolutely. I can understand why he or she would win. So it was always just nice to be included. But to actually
1:12.1	win it, I think it's why it hit me so hard to know the people who have won it. And the fact that
1:16.7	it's your peers, thousands of people, I guess, around the country, it's a big organization,
1:22.0	NSMA, that they think you're worthy of it, given how many great sports broadcasters there are, really, really humbling. I still haven't gotten over it. And I still haven't responded all the nice text messages. That's been the nicest part of the whole thing is just, you know, when you're at a certain age in life and people are genuinely happy that you won, you know, that there's an honesty and emotion and the messages that you
1:44.7	received. That was really the best part. Oh, I'm glad I didn't text you then because I would have
1:48.2	been mad. But you're a bad loser. Well, clearly. I finished in the last place again.
1:55.2	Sean, did you know at the moment because we watched the, well, I watched the video of Greg
1:59.4	sort of announcing to you at that
2:00.9	breakfast meeting that you had. Did you know at the time or was a complete shock?
2:05.0	The complete shock. Now, I know the balloting ended on December 31st and it was January 1st,
2:11.4	obviously, the morning of the Sugar Bowl that they told me in our production meeting.
2:15.8	The one thing that was a little cue when he started to talk,
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