is that just a snake he's holding?

In Tennesse, I see that Lane Kiffin has managed to be upstaged in the bad behavior department:

A man who taught in Murfreesboro and Metro city schools has been arrested on charges he’s been secretly taping teenagers having sex in his house.
According Metro police, Louis Jay Levine was arrested this morning by sex crimes detectives on federal charges of producing child pornography.
Levine, 52, was a science teacher in Murfreesboro City Schools and an occasional substitute teacher at Metro Nashville Public Schools. He was placed on administrative leave April 1 in Murfreesboro and taken off the substitute list at Metro, according to police and school officials.
According to police, Levine had an outbuilding where teenagers were given marijuana and alcohol and had sex. Levine had an elaborate monitoring system with cameras installed in the outbuilding as well as other rooms in the main house on Alton Road, according to police.
Also in the home was a room with a waterbed with a wooden box over it that was wired for videotaping, police said.
Hundreds of homemade videotapes were recovered from his bedroom. Teenagers interviewed by police who spent time at Levine’s house said they didn’t know they were being videotaped. According to police, people who were teenagers as far back as the 1980s told police they engaged in similar activity at Levine’s house. A neighbor said Levine had only lived in the Alton Road address for about eight to 10 years. The house once belonged to his parents and Levine moved into that house after his parents died, the neighbor said.
Levine is being charged federally under a provision for interstate and foreign commerce, because the video camera and tapes he used were made in Japan, according to federal prosecutors.