Dick Harmon: BYU tight ends, others on roster gaining experience from same foreign nation

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What foreign country may have had the biggest impact on BYU football at present?

It’s all about Chile, that South American country located along a narrow strip of land with the Pacific Ocean on one side and the Andes Mountains on the other. It’s got BYU’s number.

Take star tight end Matt Bushman. Chile was where he spent two years of his life on an LDS mission after a high school career in Tucson, Arizona, before showing up at BYU. It is also where former starting quarterback Tanner Mangum served, as did tight end Moroni Laulu-Pututau.

Both Laulu-Pututau and Bushman will sit out spring practice, which begins next month. Bushman played half of last season with a torn labrum…