I was lead to believe that it helped the awareness of the WR. That if the WR was about to go out of bounds it would react better than other games. To me, yes thats a feature. Could i be wrong? Hell yeah! lol, but the question is will this feature be in NCAA, not if I'm right or wrong. Again, I think the Madden team and NCAA team both have different things they want to do with there games and I believe its very unlikely they will have this "catch tool feature".
I agree that people would be mad if the "debugging tool" was the big feature but I am just not one to get my hopes up. The game seems to be better when I don't expect so much out of it.