Bill O'Brien dismissed rumors about his potential departure from Penn State, insisting during a radio interview that he will return to coach the Nittany Lions next season.

"I plan on being the head football coach at Penn State (in 2013)," O'Brien said Tuesday in an interview with 790 AM "The Zone" in Atlanta. "That's my plan and that's what I intend to do."

The interview came on the same day that O'Brien's agent, Joe Linta, told ESPN that his client is committed to staying at Penn State.

Linta also said that recent talk about how much O'Brien would be forced to pay in order to buy out the remaining eight years of his contract at Penn State are "irrelevant."

"(O'Brien) is staying, and we've had no conversations with anyone else," Linta said. "In fact, he's leaving at 6 in the morning tomorrow to go out on the recruiting trail."

O'Brien also denied uttering a profanity in his on-the-field interview after Saturday's victory over Wisconsin, claiming he called his team "fighters" -- not a profane word some thought he said.