NCAA Men's Basketball tourny moving to 96 team field rumored to be a done deal; why stop there?

Here is the deal, at 64 teams the tournament is exciting, fun, and competitive; for the most part. In the history of the tournament a #16 seed has never beaten a #1 seed. With that little tid bit in place why add 32 more teams to the field? What so maybe 10-12 more mid-major teams get in or are they trying to get the whole big east conference in the tournament? This move certaintly won't get a second team in from the sunbelt conference in the tournament. The 1 vs 24 matchup will be just as uneventful as the 1 vs 16 currently is. Yes maybe the 6 vs 19 or 7 vs 18 matchup could be a little more entertaining but is it necessary. The tournament has been extremely successful and the first two days of the tournament have become somewhat of a holiday across the country. But stretching the tournament from 3 to 5 weeks makes zero sense to me. Teams already have a tough time winning 6 games in a row but make that 10 it seems a lot to ask. More to the fact that the NCAA has used the excuse that a playoff for Division I football wouldn't work because you would have to take the kids out of school for an extended period of time. How would a 5 week NCAA basketball tournament be any better than an 8 team football playoff for the kids? Their logic they use is hipocritical at the least, not to mention the NCAA basketball regular season is somewhat irrelevant as it is. Add 32 more teams to the NCAA tournament and there would be no need to watch any regular season games again, even with 5 on TV every night.
This is a classic case of the greedy NCAA trying to stretch out a good thing for additional TV revenue. The arguement is that the 65th team won't be able to complain and make a case for getting in. They will be right they won't, but now the 97th team will. Not to mention expanding this much will all but kill the NIT tournament.
If the rumors are true, this is a bad move by the NCAA and eventually will bite them in the behind. I hope they look past all the greed and do the right thing by the game and their fans. Basketball will never be on the same level as football but it is fine where it is, so just leave it alone and let us all enjoy those three weeks in March/April.