This could be a red herring though, like the fake punt against Stanford (Shaq didn't audible out of it when he should've but Petersen took the blame for him).
People always want to blame the coaches but how do you know that Petersen or Jonathan Smith didn't tell Miles to wait until a few seconds were on the clock before clapping for the snap? IIRC, Miles asked for the snap with 7 seconds on the clock (whether Petersen or Smith told him or not, he should still know that himself) and it was 1:35 left and Arizona had a TO.
Do you put the ball in the hands of your RS-SR RB who has never fumbled or do you risk another wild snap back to a punter who already dropped the ball against ASU earlier in the year?
Basically, if Cooper holds onto the ball, people aren't talking about clock-management issues in the slightest but since he carried with one arm (how many coaches in high school and college told him to use two arms, 3 different coaching staffs?!?) and fumbled, people are looking at that.
It actually pisses me off because we should be looking at the remaining Sarkisian Sloppiness. The 13 penalties, Miles acting like a retard with the ball, and the giving up a TD on a fake FG when it was a chip-shot and we weren't going to block it. The bad snap on the PAT. THOSE ARE THE FUCKING REAL THINGS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED!
Don James certainly had some rough losses but I don't recall many lost on clock management issues.