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Your complaint about having to hike all over campus... by 105Marquette

...to get from one game to another sounds very familiar. We've been to more lax tourneys than I can count, and there's definitely a pattern: Tourneys held at college campuses tend to have their fields spread out more than do tourneys held at purpose-built athletic facilities.

B17 just had a tourney up in Chester County, PA. It was held at an old, small airport that had been closed decades ago. It was converted to an athletic facility, and it's the best layout for a tournament I can imagine. It has about a dozen fields arranged two-by-two down what was the main runway. They built long parking lots on both sides of the fields, so everybody can park right next to their field, and your car's in easy reach if your next game is more than you'd like to walk. Really well done.

Also, it sounds like despite all the changes at ND, the gate guards are still following the same orders never to let cars through regardless of circumstances. Perhaps the lax coaches aren't aware of the headaches the gate guards are causing their paying campers?