I've just taken on a new Asp.Net MVC application and after opening it up I find the following,

1. [Project].Web
2. [Project].Models
3. [Project].BLL
4. [Project].DAL

Now, something thats become clear is that there is the data has to do a hell of a lot before it makes it to the View (Database>DAL>Repo>BLL>ConvertToModel>Controller>View). The DAL is Subsonic, the repositorys in the DAL return the subsonic entities to the BLL which process them does crazy things and converts them into a Model (From the .Models) sometimes with classes that look like this

public DataModel GetDataModel(EntityObject Src)
{
    var ReturnData = new DataModel():
    ReturnData.ID = Src.ID;
    ReturnDate.Name = Src.Name;

    //etc etc
}

Now, the question is, "Is this complete overkill"? Ok the project is of a decent size and can only get bigger but is it worth carrying on with all this? I dont want to use AutoMapper as it just seems like it makes the complication worse. Can anyone shed any light on this?