“I have heard a lot of talk on line and elsewhere that “colleges love multi-sport athletes,” I don’t see the proof of that. Gone are the days that there are the football/basketball/baseball varsity jocks – playing something year round and dominating the school culture.”
Interesting point, it would depend on your definition of multi- is it 2 or more than 2, because I agree that club sports has reduced the number of recruitable players in more than 2 sports, however there are still a lot of athletes that can play two sports, especially if one is club, the other rec or high school. Our hs started mens hockey when I was there, and was basically it was the football team that made up the first roster, that wouldn’t happen today as you have kids focusing on hockey at an early age, maybe 6 or 7 and they would make the hs team.