NJCAA Baseball Coaches Association Coaches Hall of Fame
Farris coached at Mississippi Gulf Coast College from 1962 to 1989. He won 13 Mississippi championships and the Eastern Regional in 1975, and was Mississippi Coach of the Year in 1975, 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982. Farris was inducted into Mississippi Coaches Hall of Fame in 1986, coached at the U.S. Olympic Sports Festival, Athletic Director at MSCC for ten years, and NJCAA Director.