You are buying RookieDude, but I bet some good preventative officiating could have got the sub there in time.
Since the official knew the rule, he/she should have asked for the warning horn ("scorekeeper, please give me 30 seconds for a replacement and a horn at 20") and then told the coach, "you have 10 seconds to get a player in or it's a T." In a close game, I'm betting that the coach would have got the sub there in time if the coach knew the consequences.
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