Mel Miller

Wife, mom, ECU Pirates, Carolina Hurricanes, HR

[Mel Miller @melgrot]

@EthanClarkWX It took me 2 hours to get ours during the STM presale time this morning

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

THREE DOWN, ONE TO GO!!!

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

Your 2025-26 Eastern Conference Champions

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[The American @American_Conf]

THE EAST CAROLINA PIRATES ARE CHAMPIONS AGAIN! 🏴‍☠️

#BuiltToRise x @ECUBaseball

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

WHO WANTS A BEER SKATE?!

RT for your chance to win the hottest drinking device in sports.

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

The Carolina Hurricanes are a GREAT TEAM

Their fans are SPECTACULAR #PMSLive

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

ROUND WON 😤

[Kacy Hintz @KacyHintz]

"It's an honor to represent this country and win gold"

Had a chance to reconnect with Jaccob Slavin after Team USA arrived at MIA. So gracious for him giving a quick minute as he was coming out of customs with his beautiful family.

@Canes | #CarolinaCulture

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

We won this game in regulation

[Mel Miller @melgrot]

#ThankYouCampingWorld

[Marcus Lemonis @marcuslemonis]

Win the Last RV I will ever give away.
@CampingWorld must RT and use
#ThankYouCampingWorld

[ECU Football @ECUPiratesFB]

Back to Back Military Bowl Champions 🏴‍☠️

[Holton Ahlers @holtahlers12]

Never underestimate the heart of a TRUE Pirate! The ones who stayed know, the ones who bailed don’t & never will!

[Stephen Igoe @StephenIgoe]

An "INADVERTENT WHISTLE" just wiped out one of the best touchdown runs you will ever see.

These are Big XII officials.

Horrible.

[Mel Miller @melgrot]

@divamcrae As a Canes fan, this was one of my favorite games ever!

[ECU Football @ECUPiratesFB]

Memphis Recap: It Takes All Of Us!

[ECU Football @ECUPiratesFB]

Delivery Update 📦

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

East Carolina currently has a 0.6% chance to make the CFP according to ESPN analytics 🏴‍☠️

The Pirates sit at 6-3, but have just one loss in American play. Their losses are to NC State, #12 BYU, and Tulane.

All six of their wins have come by double digits:
• Beat Campbell by 53
• Beat Coastal by 38
• Beat Temple by 31
• Beat Charlotte by 26
• Beat Army by 22
• Beat Tulsa by 14

I got curious as to what it would take for the Pirates to get to the Playoff and make that 0.6% chance come to fruition.

Here’s ECU’s path to a CFP bid:

• Win out (Memphis, at UTSA, at FAU)

• Need Tulane to lose to one of FAU, at Temple, Charlotte (Tulane holds H2H tiebreaker over ECU)

• Need North Texas to lose to one of at UAB, at Rice, Temple (UNT would hold ranking/metrics tiebreaker over ECU).

• Need USF to keep winning/moving up in rankings (knock Navy out, provide a potential résumé win for ECU in American title game).

• Assuming all of that happens and East Carolina gets to the American Championship, the Pirates would need to beat USF (who has preferably cracked the CFP Top 20). Having USF be the team they beat for the American title would greatly help their résumé compared to other G5 conference champs.

• 10-3 American Champ ECU would be in contention for the 5th highest ranked conference champion autobid to the CFP. Their competition would likely be James Madison.

• Need JMU to lose to App State, Washington State, or at Coastal, or potentially get upset in the Sun Belt Championship by Southern Miss. In that case, as a contingency, ECU should be rooting for Southern Miss to lose to one of Texas State, South Alabama, or Troy (to make them 10-3 instead of 11-2 hypothetically as the Sun Belt Champion).

• 10-3 ECU with a Top 20 win over USF would probably get the nod over whoever the Mountain West Champ is, but San Diego State losing another game would make that virtually certain (UNLV/Hawaii/Boise wouldn’t have a better résumé).

• The MAC and CUSA won’t really be in the picture.

If all that happens 10-3 American Champion East Carolina would get the 5th highest ranked conference champion autobid to the College Football Playoff.

[ECU Football @ECUPiratesFB]

Look familiar? 🏴‍☠️

[Mel Miller @melgrot]

@_MLFootball As an ECU fan, I couldn’t even watch replays of that for a long time. Fought so hard to come back, only lose on terrible clock management. Loved that coaching staff but not their finest moment.