Indeed....just because the Pod has a stereo out, doesn't mean you need to run it that way. One of my clients uses a Kemper and we track it in mono for the vast majority of guitar tracks.
We also tend to track it with delay and reverb turned off. This is for 2 reasons;
#1-any punch-ins will not suffer from sudden echo/verb glitches
#2-we are not locked into any echo/verb settings when we get to mixdown