# NIL & brand staff in the ACC ACC athletic departments list 33 NIL and athlete-brand staff positions across 14 of the 18 covered schools as of 3 Nov 2026 — 1% of the conference's 6,086 tracked positions, an average of 2.4 per department that has the function. University of Notre Dame has the most (8). In the last 90 days Whistle detected 0 hires, 1 departure and 0 title changes in these roles. _Data as of 3 Nov 2026._ Source: the official athletics staff directories of the 18 covered ACC schools, re-read on a rolling schedule; roles classified from published titles; changes from successive reads. _Canonical URL: https://gowhistle.io/directory/acc/roles/nil_ ## NIL & brand in the ACC at a glance - **Conference:** [ACC](https://gowhistle.io/directory/acc) — NCAA Division I - **Schools covered:** 18 - **Schools with nil & brand staff:** 14 (78%) - **NIL & brand positions:** 33 (1% of 6,086 tracked positions) - **Average per department with the function:** 2.4 - **Changes, last 90 days:** 0 hires · 1 departures · 0 title changes ## How many NIL and athlete-brand staff does each ACC school have? One row per covered department. "Positions" counts current (non-departed) staff whose classified role or published title places them in nil & brand; changes are non-baseline hires, departures and title changes in those positions over the last 90 days, with same-day directory re-reads excluded. | School | Division | NIL & brand positions | All tracked positions | Hires (90d) | Departures (90d) | Title changes (90d) | | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | | [University of Notre Dame](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/notredame) | Division I | 8 | 362 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [North Carolina State University](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/ncstate) | Division I | 4 | 341 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [University of Pittsburgh](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/pittsburgh) | Division I | 3 | 296 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [Clemson University](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/clemson) | Division I | 2 | 392 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [Florida State University](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/fsu) | Division I | 2 | 361 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [Southern Methodist University](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/smu) | Division I | 2 | 251 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [Syracuse University](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/syracuse) | Division I | 2 | 265 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [University of California, Berkeley](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/cal) | Division I | 2 | 399 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/northcarolina) | Division I | 2 | 444 | 0 | 1 | 0 | | [University of Virginia](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/virginia) | Division I | 2 | 328 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [Duke University](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/duke) | Division I | 1 | 380 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [University of Louisville](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/louisville) | Division I | 1 | 349 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [University of Miami](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/miami) | Division I | 1 | 299 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [Wake Forest University](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/wakeforest) | Division I | 1 | 291 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [Boston College](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/bostoncollege) | Division I | 0 | 288 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [Georgia Institute of Technology](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/georgiatech) | Division I | 0 | 259 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [Stanford University](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/stanford) | Division I | 0 | 404 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | [Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University](https://gowhistle.io/directory/school/virginiatech) | Division I | 0 | 377 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ## Who sells to NIL and athlete-brand staff? NIL & brand is the buying group for NIL marketplaces and collectives, disclosure and compliance software, brand-building and content agencies, financial-literacy providers. Typical titles in this group: Director of NIL Strategy; Assistant AD for NIL & Brand Development; NIL Coordinator. Whistle customers filter these positions by conference, school, state and sport, see each person's name, title and contact details where the directory publishes them, and get an alert when one of the positions changes hands. ## Other staff functions in the ACC - [Ticketing in the ACC](https://gowhistle.io/directory/acc/roles/ticketing) — 134 positions at 18 schools - [Marketing & fan experience in the ACC](https://gowhistle.io/directory/acc/roles/marketing) — 125 positions at 18 schools - [Communications & media relations in the ACC](https://gowhistle.io/directory/acc/roles/communications) — 191 positions at 18 schools - [Compliance in the ACC](https://gowhistle.io/directory/acc/roles/compliance) — 71 positions at 18 schools - [Development & fundraising in the ACC](https://gowhistle.io/directory/acc/roles/development) — 229 positions at 18 schools - [Facilities & event operations in the ACC](https://gowhistle.io/directory/acc/roles/facilities-event-ops) — 278 positions at 18 schools - [Video & analytics in the ACC](https://gowhistle.io/directory/acc/roles/video) — 196 positions at 18 schools - [Strength & conditioning in the ACC](https://gowhistle.io/directory/acc/roles/strength-conditioning) — 211 positions at 18 schools - [Athletic training & sports medicine in the ACC](https://gowhistle.io/directory/acc/roles/athletic-training) — 446 positions at 18 schools - [Equipment in the ACC](https://gowhistle.io/directory/acc/roles/equipment) — 117 positions at 18 schools ## NIL & brand in other conferences - [NIL & brand in the Big Ten](https://gowhistle.io/directory/big-ten/roles/nil) — 15 schools - [NIL & brand in the SEC](https://gowhistle.io/directory/sec/roles/nil) — 14 schools - [NIL & brand in the Big 12](https://gowhistle.io/directory/big-12/roles/nil) — 10 schools - [NIL & brand in the AAC](https://gowhistle.io/directory/aac/roles/nil) — 8 schools - [NIL & brand in the Pac-12](https://gowhistle.io/directory/pac-12/roles/nil) — 7 schools ## Method Positions are counted when the published job title matches the nil & brand pattern (and not an exclusion such as student, intern or graduate assistant); the same rule produces the counts and the change tallies. Change counts compare successive reads of each school's official directory; a school's first extraction and any day on which 25% or more of a roster appears or disappears at once (a re-read, not turnover) are excluded. This page is published when at least 3 covered ACC schools have the function and they list at least 10 positions between them; smaller combinations are kept out of search indexes. ## Frequently asked questions **How many NIL and athlete-brand staff work in the ACC?** 33 current positions across 14 covered ACC athletic departments as of 3 Nov 2026; University of Notre Dame lists the most (8). **Which ACC school has the largest nil & brand staff?** University of Notre Dame, with 8 NIL and athlete-brand staff positions out of 362 tracked positions. **How much turnover is there in ACC nil & brand roles?** 1 change in the last 90 days: 0 hires, 1 departure, 0 title changes, after excluding first reads and same-day re-reads. **Where does this staff data come from?** From the staff directories athletic departments publish on their official websites, read automatically on a rolling schedule (NCAA Division I roughly weekly, Division II and III every three to four weeks). Whistle never publishes names, emails or phone numbers on public pages; staff can remove their details at any time at [gowhistle.io/remove-my-info](https://gowhistle.io/remove-my-info). Selling to NIL and athlete-brand staff in the ACC? [Whistle](https://gowhistle.io/pricing) lists every one of these 33 positions with name and title, emails and phones where the directory publishes them, and an alert when one changes. Or [buy the conference as a one-time dataset](https://gowhistle.io/data). --- Whistle (Whistle Athletics) is a collegiate athletics sales-intelligence platform: staff directories, hiring signals and contact data for vendors selling into NCAA athletic departments. Public pages show counts and roles only, never personal contact details. Site summary: https://gowhistle.io/llms.txt