anotheridiot
There will always be someone to blame......
To hire a guy, they must be available. So to hire a GM with experience as a GM or a HC with experience as a HC, it must be a guy that is no longer doing that job. Typically there's a reason for that and the most common reasons are that they either failed or retired. Occasionally you'll see a guy that failed in his first go around, succeed the second time (Belichik for example), but it's not terribly common. I think that probably has more to do with it than money.
But by all means, please provide some examples of the guys you're referring to. Who are these experienced GM & HC candidates who were available when the Bears were hiring for those jobs, but you believe were passed over because of money? Key word here is "available". So listing names like Belichik or Ozzie Newsome like in that other thread don't count. It has to be guys who weren't already working as a GM or HC somewhere else at the time.
Dont forget most of the big names out there like Gruden, Dunge, Billick, Cowher, all want 5+ million and say over personnel decisions. You give all that up and that coach fails and bails you have a bigger mess on your hands than giving a coach a team to field.